Yes, gladly. I feel that thread has served a good purpose, but it's true, it's been at the expense of flooding the list with a lot of noise, and I've contributed some of it. I do think that after a prolonged long dip into less productive discussion, in the last exchange we have arrived at a point where there is some consensus about what the problems are and how to attack them, and hopefully we can leverage that into some policy reform that moves the project forward. But you're right, it would be better at this point to move that activity onto a wiki. (Probably worthwhile to point out one avenue for that, a Commons discussion mentioned a couple times in the email thread, in which a number of people are trying to hash out a workable approach to swiftly dealing with extreme cases where illegal content gets uploaded, and how volunteers and paid staff can work together most effectively: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Making_it_easier_for_problematic_files_to_be_brought_to_our_attention )

Thank you for mentioning my class (starting in under 24 hours!) as the kind of thing you'd like to be hearing about on this list. I really appreciate that! It honestly hadn't occurred to me to announce it here; but since you have, it occurs to me that our most productive and active students in the first round were overwhelmingly female; also my co-instructor is a woman. So I suppose we are actually taking a little stab at the gender gap in that class. If anybody knows people looking to take a six week class to learn a bit about Wikipedia editing, please do point them our way!