On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:10 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > On 17 March 2014 14:56, John Mark Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 10:45 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> FWIW, kicking people off the list in such circumstances has generally >>> been acceptable on Wikimedia lists, with or without notice. Though >>> notice is nice and adds to transparency. > >> Really? You guys have banned regular Wikimedia contributions, who are >> not banned on any project and have made useful contributions to the >> chapter, from the mailing list without notice, and left them on the >> ban list for months without telling anyone? i.e. put their email >> address on the mailman 'ban_list'? > > > > No, I neither said nor meant that. I meant more broadly, moderating or > kicking sufficiently disruptive users as needed.
Well you said "such circumstances", and I have described the current circumstances in which the ban occurred. The organisation has now created a private mailing list with Steven and Craig as the list admins, and subscribed all financial members to it. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-au-members Big sigh. fwiw, I've now removed myself as list admin of this public list. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Wikimediaau-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaau-l
