[pp.int.general] Fwd: Really now?

Travis McCrea me at travismccrea.com
Fri Jun 7 18:30:12 CEST 2013


Johan,
This is a message that I keep trying to spread on this mailing list. I am glad someone else understands the importance of unity.

Johan Karlsson wrote:
> Everyone, please, try to be nice to each other. We are all on the same
> team here, fighting for the same goal.
>
> Every time you send an angry email to this list someone is going to
> feel targeted and become a bit demoralized. Depending on who that is
> he or she will either be very sad after just a single email. Or
> perhaps the recipient of the email will only feel a tiny bit annoyed.
> But after a while all those tiny bits of annoyance will start to get
> to you and you wont find it fun to continue working for the movement.
> When that happens you either try to struggle on, but will feel the
> need to yell at others just to stay sane, or you will simply drop out
> of the Pirate party. Dropping out may actually then be the best thing
> for the movement as a whole as you at least stop spreading that bad mode.
>
> I know its hard to get along, and especially in a large group like
> this there WILL be people you dont like, or perhaps even hate. The
> problem is that everyone feels the same way as you, but towards
> different people. I actually think that everyone on this list have at
> least two or three other people that hate him or her.
> I dont feel very good about that. Id really like to ask all of you to
> please consider what you are doing. When you write an angry email to
> someone Im sure you think you are doing good - taking a stand for a
> very important issue, such as for example this one with the emails
> being scanned by google and perhaps NSA. The problem is that there are
> hundreds, perhaps even thousands of issues that is just about as
> important as this one. And if we shall make someone feel bad or
> perhaps even leaving the movement for every single issue there soon
> wont be many pirates left to fix the issues at hand.
>
> Im not asking you to be quiet about your opinions. They are really
> important and what makes us go forward as a movement. But Im begging
> you to, please, consider how you are phrasing yourself and please stop
> this mass bullying of all other pirates on this list. The future of
> the movement depends on it.
>
> Kind Regards
> Johan Karlsson
> Member of the Swedish Pirate party
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Thijs Markus
> <thijs.markus at piratenpartij.nl <mailto:thijs.markus at piratenpartij.nl>>
> wrote:
>
>     Yes, how terribly impolite to keep an open and transparant
>     discussion thus. Transparancy is bad and you should feel bad!
>     These things ought to be resolved in private, behind closed doors.
>     Else some blatant incompetence might be become public knowledge
>     and we wouldn't want that now would we? You see, some people
>     simply lack the merits to counterbalance their failings, and it'd
>     be horribly unfair to them if we did things in an open and
>     transparant fashion.
>
>     Gregory Engels schreef op 07.06.2013 17:06:
>
>         Patric.
>
>         since you stated, that you are not interested in what I write, I
>         refrain from answering.
>         Also, It is unacceptable to forward private conversation to a
>         public
>         mailing list.
>         YOU are talking about privacy issues? Dude, get a life.
>
>
>         sincerely yours,
>
>         Gregory Engels
>         Co-Chairman
>         Pirate Parties International
>
>         mobile: +49 172 853 44 91
>         skype:gregory.engels
>         jabber:dichter at jabber.__piratenpartei.de
>         <mailto:jabber%3Adichter at jabber.piratenpartei.de>
>         my free time: http://doodle.com/dichter
>
>
>
>
>         On 07.06.2013, at 14:39, Patrick Godschalk
>         <patrick.godschalk at __piratenpartij.nl
>         <mailto:patrick.godschalk at piratenpartij.nl>> wrote:
>
>                 Patrick,
>
>                 Please stop this.
>                 Believe me, there is no problem, and you are not
>                 seeing the reality how it is.
>
>
>             I consider this a problem. The people in this thread in April
>             also seemed to consider this a problem. That, by definition,
>             makes it a problem for some people. And since those people are
>             members of Pirate Parties, you know, the people you as a board
>             are supposed to help coordinate, that also makes it *your*
>             problem as a board, whether you like or agree with it or not.
>
>
>
>                 Since you have posted the DIG output of PPI Dns you
>                 should be able
>                 to interpret the results, instead of making false
>                 accusations based on
>                 misunderstanding. You claim, that there is some
>                 problem with the
>                 website, cause you se some A and AAAA records in the
>                 output
>                 pointing to google. This is however entirely
>                 irrelevant for the Website.
>
>
>             Again, I have NO idea how the website is hosted as I've
>             pointed
>             out in three earlier mails. That also wasn't ever the
>             point, as
>             the thread was specifically started around the e-mail accounts
>             on pp-international.net <http://pp-international.net>, as
>             you could've deduced from the fact
>             that I specifically ran dig for MX records.
>
>
>
>                 You are keeping ranting around, without considering
>                 the possibility
>                 that you might be wrong.
>
>
>             Possibly, but the same could be said about you. Regardless,
>             this isn't a constructive argument whatsoever and an ad
>             hominem at best. You seem to be under the impression that I'm
>             out to 'get you', or 'get PPI'. I'm not. In fact, I have no
>             strong feelings about you or PPI whatsoever. (Also known as
>             apathy, which isn't a good position for your members to be
>             in, but that's a different matter.)
>
>             What I *do* care about is the privacy of individuals sending
>             an e-mail to PPI for any reason whatsoever. Think
>             journalists, who are in many countries dependent on privacy
>             for their job and in a few countries, their life. *THAT'S*
>             why I'm sending this e-mail thread.
>
>
>
>                 Your initial question was "dig pp-international.net
>                 <http://pp-international.net> mx" which gives
>                 you most everything about the MAIL routing to the
>                 op-international.net <http://op-international.net>
>                 domain. It gives you NONE answer for mail routing to
>                 other subdomains
>                 or the WEB lookup.
>
>
>             As I've addressed in my earlier mail, yes, when I mentioned
>             that this issue is specifically related to the
>             pp-international.net <http://pp-international.net> domain.
>             Not lists.$ or
>             lists.pirateweb.org <http://lists.pirateweb.org>. You're
>             sending me an argument I've made
>             myself in an earlier e-mail. Wut?
>
>
>
>                 If you have something important to say, that should
>                 stay private, use
>                 some encryption, for goodness sake! otherwise you only
>                 have a false
>                 impression of security.
>
>
>             Okay, yeah. Guys, show's over! Everyone should just make
>             their own privacy. No need for us anymore, lets all just
>             assume everyone has the technical know-how to run decent
>             encryption.
>
>
>
>                 that is all said. everything else is just mindless
>                 ranting and fighting.
>                 there is no need for this. I am not against you, or
>                 anybody inside the
>                 pirate movement, and we should treat each other with
>                 the due respect,
>                 as we all doing our job out of idealism and entirely
>                 voluntarily.
>
>
>             Honestly, I've found your tone more disrespectful than not.
>             Again, I don't really mind or care, I can take it if it'll
>             lead to actually getting shit *done*. But whether you're
>             'against me' or not, lets cut it out with the passive
>             aggressiveness. I prefer raw hate.
>
>
>
>                 Yes, we could spend our few resources for migration
>                 out from google,
>                 but then, we would miss them for other projects, and
>                 in the end,
>                 we would only switch from something that is working
>                 flawlessly to something
>                 else, without improving anything or solving any problem.
>
>
>             According to
>             <https://github.com/Pirate-__Parties-International
>             <https://github.com/Pirate-Parties-International>>
>             there are (at least) 168 people with more than enough
>             experience to set up a simple mail server. Therefore it's not
>             a matter of volunteers being available. A simple VPS (which is
>             all that's needed really) will net you under 5$ (or whatever
>             currency) a month. How much did the Kazán conference cost
>             again?
>
>             Also, what other projects?
>
>             --
>             Patrick Godschalk
>             patrick.godschalk at __piratenpartij.nl
>             <mailto:patrick.godschalk at piratenpartij.nl>
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>
>
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