Re-reading a second after hitting send, I realise my misinterpretation of
these conclusions, which were not jumbled. The result was that one list is
more tolerant of certain cfps, the other is no-cfps. Apologies for the
extra noise.

On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 at 09:38, Dan Brickley <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 at 09:18, Jan Ainali <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I find all these academic call for papers/abstracts/submissions emails on
>> this mailing list a bit spammy.
>>
>> I would be okay with them if the person mailing introduced it with a
>> sentence or two why they believe it to be specifically interesting for the
>> Wikidata community.
>>
>> Am I just grumpy and should delete and ignore, or do you too think we
>> should introduce some guidelines for this?
>>
>
> We had this debate on some w3c lists,
>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/semantic-web/2016Mar/0108.html
>
> compromise-conclusion:
>
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2016May/0032.html
>
> (the posts jumble up names of 2 related lists but the result was same
> onboth)
>
> """ Following that survey, the majority view is that:
>
> 1. CfPs are not welcome on this ([email protected] 
> <[email protected]?Subject=Re%3A%20Calls%20for%20participation%20no%20longer%20allowed&In-Reply-To=%3Cb3f1b852-c11b-6652-1277-f9583a3087b3%40w3.org%3E&References=%3Cb3f1b852-c11b-6652-1277-f9583a3087b3%40w3.org%3E>)
>  list.
>
> 2. *Some* CfPs are tolerable on [email protected] 
> <[email protected]?Subject=Re%3A%20Calls%20for%20participation%20no%20longer%20allowed&In-Reply-To=%3Cb3f1b852-c11b-6652-1277-f9583a3087b3%40w3.org%3E&References=%3Cb3f1b852-c11b-6652-1277-f9583a3087b3%40w3.org%3E>,
>  especially if the
> string '[CfP]' appears in the subject line (for personal filtering).
>
> I will write to the semantic-web list separately but for this list the
> rule is simple:
>
> Calls for participation are not allowed on this list.
>
> No exceptions.
>
> None.
>
> This is in line with other lists maintained by W3C that do not allow
> such posts.
>
> Any future calls for participation posted to this list will be treated
> as spam"""
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> /Jan Ainali
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