Re: Gnome-Media 2.2.0 "No War On Iraq" released

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas urgent rug ac be>]

On 27 Jan 2003, Jason A. Pfeil wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 09:05, iain wrote:
> [...snip...]
> > Headline: Gnome-Media 2.2.0 "No War On Iraq" Released.
> > Unrelated Websites: http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
> >                   : http://www.antiwar.com/
> [...snip...]
> 
> Yes, the release codenames in the past have been cute.  This, however,
> is going WAY out of bounds.  This is an announcement about a piece of
> software, not a mailing list of people who share your socio-political
> viewpoint.  Please do not use this list as a political soapbox, as this
> is not the target of this list and you will likely generate off-topic
> flamewars.

Hm, it is just a release name, and some links, so nothing obtrusive.
I don't see iain using the list as a political soapbox, and I don't feel 
it was being used as such.  What I mean is, your reaction to it is far 
more obvious as a socio-political viewpoint.

Thomas


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