1+ On 27 Mar 2012 11:44, "Abbas Mahmood" <abbas...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for being blunt :-| > > I have heard lots of complaints about this mailing list from both local > chapter members, Wikipedia editors, and the wider Wikimedia community. > Phoebe once mentioned something about mailing lists that I believe is worth > sharing: > > One point that I have thought about, and talked about privately with > some of you, is (particularly on a list like this) how much time -- > how many person-hours -- is spent on each email. An email list where > the entire staff and chapters officers are subscribed means that each > email is read by a few hundred people, many of whom are getting paid > and/or who have serious institutional responsibilities. So even if a > long mail only takes 5 minutes to read, parse and think about, how > many person-hours (and in turn donor dollars, lost productivity, or > time taken from other things) are being spent? Let's be optimistic and > assume that any given email is only read by *half* the list. 5 minutes > x 100 people = 500 minutes / 60 = 8.3 hours. > > So one full workday -- 8 hours of our collective time -- for each long > email. That is a heavy burden to ask of ourselves, and a heavy > responsibility on those of us (like me!!!) who go on at length in > their mails! > > > Being the admin of this list, I have seen soooo many people unsubscribe to > this list, mostly because they have found it nonconstructive and lots of > lip-service going on. So people can be free to post whatever they want on > this mailing list, but that doesn't mean that we are free from > the repercussions of what we say. The consequence of this being a list that > is ignored, or people unsubscribe, or even get added to a kill file. > > So we can therefore continue on as we are, and reap whatever the results > of that are or individuals can choose to self-moderate. > > The choice is yours! > > Abbas. > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:02:15 +0300 > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Kenya] thank you > From: njeria...@gmail.com > To: abbas...@hotmail.com > > that wasn't sooo kind.... > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Abbas Mahmood <abbas...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Oh my goodness, Lisper! May I ask you to please pause and breathe in (and > out) before sending unnecessary emails to this list? I am quite overwhelmed > by my almost unmanageable inbox, and would highly appreciate it if we'd > stop flooding people's inboxes. > > --Abbas. > > > > > ------------------------------ > Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:44:47 -0700 > From: lispermwe...@yahoo.com > To: wikimediake@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikimedia Kenya] thank you > > thank you for the security > that was very good of you > that's why i choose to work with you > am assured of security. > > _______________________________________________ WikimediaKE mailing list > WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaKE mailing list > WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaKE mailing list > WikimediaKE@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediake > >
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