[Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:40 AM, Milos Rancic<millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Ryan Lomonaco<wiki.ral315 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The rules did disenfranchise me, for example.  It doesn't bother me that I
>> can't vote, but that said, I would've liked to vote if eligible.  I am not
>> active on Wikipedia, but I do follow the mailing lists, and have followed
>> the election process.  If I really wanted to, I could've racked up 50 edits
>> to get a vote, but that almost seems "dirty", I guess, to make edits just to
>> regain eligibility for the election.
>
> I think that mailing lists posts should be treated as edits.

It wouldn't contradict the argument I made.