2009/9/22 stevertigo <[email protected]>: > Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Absolutely. The WMF hosts the lists, so has a veto, but generally >> policy should be entirely determined by the users. Mods interpreting >> that policy can result in what is essentially new policy, though. (The >> same happens in law - judges often create new law when judging a >> specific case.) > > Very accurate. > > I myself just thought up a new idea that could sort of solve some of > the crosstalk, OTOT, and noise issues people have been complaining > about (as if foundation-l was ever supposed to be as sanitized as a > PR/announce list). > > Essentially we can just create a new mailing list for well.. mailing > list issues. Not exactly a coffee-table book about coffee-tables, just > a place for people deal with all things mail, until mail itself is > replaced with some kind of Slashclone/mailmanager hybrid.
I had exactly the same idea a few weeks ago and discussed it here briefly. In fact, you know that - you proposed it on bugzilla afterwards: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20209 There was no real support for it. If people here are interested, then we can reopen the idea. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
