Criminal Behaviour

Posted Mar 12, 2020 14:28 UTC (Thu) by dd9jn (✭ supporter ✭, #4459)
In reply to: Criminal Behaviour by Wol
Parent article: Handling attacks on a community

FWIW: Back then Daniel was an elected representative for the FSFE Fellows as per its constitution. Thus it can be expected that he has a right to contact those fellows and report to them. The FSFE didn't want any information to go out to their fellows without first being filtered. Thus Daniel was in the conflict that he could not achieve his duties. I supported and defended his right to contact those who he represented. I am not aware what happened later because shortly after that turmoil I unsubscribed from all FSFE MLs and later even terminated my membership despite being one of its founders. Anyway it should be clear that I did not and do not support any kind of rogue behaviour at FSFE or any other places.

Werner Koch

Access to supporter database in FSFE

Posted Mar 12, 2020 17:08 UTC (Thu) by ber (subscriber, #2142) [Link]

To cite from Florian's email (linked above in the article):

At around that time, he [Daniel] requested a mailing to be sent to all Supporters. At the time, we had a pretty informal policy of how those got sent out and even though we felt his mailing was inflammatory, we sent it out unchanged. We installed a more formal policy for mailings afterwards which applies to everyone and he called that censorship.

So Daniel's mail went out as he wanted it. And later FSFE crafted an improved policy more matching the expectations and consent supporters had been giving FSFE to contact them.

The event of someone gathering and abusing subscriber email addresses of FSFE's public mailing lists was much later (as far as I remember) and not directly connected.

Regards,
Bernhard Reiter (FSFE GA member and co-founder)