On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 09:32, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
At 02:21 AM 10/1/02 -0400, you wrote:
It is *crucial* to recognize that by comparison to
the number of
Wikipedians in the future, the collective number of participants on this
mailing list is effectively equivalent to a single person. So policies
that are hashed out on the mailing list right now are little better than
ones done "unilaterally" or "by fiat".
No. It's open to anyone who wants to be here, and if people use
informative subject lines, someone can choose to read only the
policy-related messages.
Can you really not see the difference between something one person
does, and something a few dozen discuss?
Of course I can. But can you see my point, too? Can you see how
decisions made by a few dozen people is not much different from
decisions made by one person, in comparison to a population of, say, one
million, or even ten thousand?