Access to supporter database in FSFE

Posted Mar 12, 2020 17:08 UTC (Thu) by ber (subscriber, #2142)
In reply to: Criminal Behaviour by dd9jn
Parent article: Handling attacks on a community

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)