[cap-talk] More Heresey: ACLs not inherently bad

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:21 -0400, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> I'm not sure whether you intended an implicit non-requirements assertion
> above or not. What I'm really trying to say is that a lot of people on
> this list are prone to that response, and it's not an appropriate
> response in the present discussion. We're not trying to determine
> whether the policy is a good idea. We're trying to determine how to
> implement a policy that a whole lot of people would like to see
> implemented, even though it may be imperfect or even (in the eyes of
> some) undesired.

Hmm. I'm not trying to suppress discussion of merit. I'm merely (a)
trying to keep it clearly separate from discussion of method, and (b)
not to let us drift into the merit discussion as we have done in the
past, with the result that the method discussion has never managed to
finish.

shap