A recent message to
the debian-project mailing list by Debian project leader (DPL) Sam Hartman is
about a proposal to moderate the mailing list. There have been repeated
attacks on various project members and the distribution itself posted to
the list over the last few years, many from
sock-puppet, throwaway email accounts, which spawned a recent discussion on
the debian-private mailing list; Hartman was summarizing that discussion
for those who are not on the private list. But the problems on
debian-project (and other Debian public lists) are kind of just the tip of
the iceberg; there is an ongoing, persistent effort to roil the
distribution and its community.

Source: LWN.net – [$] Handling attacks on a community