Apparently. As I have no desire to have my time wasted by such abuse of the mailing list, I've created a filter to delete any future e-mails from Al Tally (with whom my interactions have been uniformly negative).

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Al Tally <majorly.wiki(a)googlemail.com>wrote;wrote: you'd be annoyed if you started getting lots of bogus messages and silly jokes on december 28

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: Well it CERTAINLY is in all latin america, spain and other latin countries But we refrain from imposing our sillyness to the rerst of the world

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote: Of course, wasting resources on april 1st is very sensical. And who cares about purported reach to the whole world and all that fancy words let's bother them with our idiotic pranks becuase we are majority and thereforewe have the right to do so Very good attitude on the wikimedia foundation list (I don't care if you do so on english wikipedia list)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Levy wrote: Here here! I'm also a fan of doing this on December 28 (and ignoring the fact that it's my birthday that day). Cary

Pedro Sanchez wrote: Some people just need to lighten up. Over the years I've seen many issues that "waste" a lot more resources than this. If you see shit in the toilet a person who flushes uses resources far more efficiently than some jealously constipated individual who opens up an investigation to punish the person who left it there. People who complain about a little innocent fun are akin to those in an office who measure the length of pencils every day to make sure they aren't excessively wasted. Ec

May I point out that Alex, also known as majorly or Al Tally, is a respected member of the British Wikimedia crowd and not just a one off prankster using a made up e-mail address. Also, this made me laugh and I would have thought that a prank with cultural significance (due to the date), that is reveleaded to be such, is also interesting for intercultural learning instead of the opposite. To single out single members of the community, especially respected contributors on and off site, and calling them idiots I think is far worse. Ian [[User:Poeloq]] On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Brian <Brian.Mingus(a)colorado.edu> wrote: -- Ian A Holton Basler-Landstrasse 19a - 79111 Freiburg - Germany +49 761 4587907 (Landline) +49 157 77247397 (Mobile)