On Aug 30, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> I agree - if there is an announcement list it is an absolute must that
> all announcements be cross-posted to foundation-l (or another
> appropriate discussion list).
I actually agree with that too. Announcements don't happen in a
vacuum...
2009/8/30 Brian :
> Quite the contrary, it is an even larger problem to be subscribed to an
> increasingly large number of ever fragmenting lists. Additionally, a
> read-only announce list would serve to stifle community discussion of WMF
> announcements. If the Foundation wants to have an announce
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
> pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Sometimes, fighting through the high traffic lists to find
> > announcements is a huge problem...
> >
> > Philippe
> >
>
> Quite the contrary, it
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
pbeaude...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>
> Sometimes, fighting through the high traffic lists to find
> announcements is a huge problem...
>
> Philippe
>
Quite the contrary, it is an even larger problem to be subscribed to an
increasingly large nu
On Aug 29, 2009, at 11:30 AM, Anthony wrote:
> I propose the foundation-announce-l mailing list be set up with the
> following posting rules:
> 1) One post per person per thread. That includes the initiator of the
> thread.
> 2) Responses in a thread must be in response to the original
> messa
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Benjamin Lees wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Anthony wrote:
>
>> I propose the foundation-announce-l mailing list be set up with the
>> following posting rules:
>> 1) One post per person per thread. That includes the initiator of the
>> thread.
>
> Tha
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Anthony wrote:
> I propose the foundation-announce-l mailing list be set up with the
> following posting rules:
> 1) One post per person per thread. That includes the initiator of the
> thread.
That's not how announcement lists work. The whole point of an ann
I would say no to this,
A second list with more rules will mean more reading work, double posting
cross posting...
Rules can be good, but we need moderators and list admins to make sure the
rules are not broken, those people need to put time in this.. and all that
time we could beter place in wor
I propose the foundation-announce-l mailing list be set up with the
following posting rules:
1) One post per person per thread. That includes the initiator of the
thread.
2) Responses in a thread must be in response to the original message. No
responding to responses.
4) A person may initiate a m
