Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Absolutely. The WMF hosts the lists, so has a
veto, but generally
policy should be entirely determined by the users. Mods interpreting
that policy can result in what is essentially new policy, though. (The
same happens in law - judges often create new law when judging a
specific case.)
Very accurate.
I myself just thought up a new idea that could sort of solve some of
the crosstalk, OTOT, and noise issues people have been complaining
about (as if foundation-l was ever supposed to be as sanitized as a
PR/announce list).
Essentially we can just create a new mailing list for well.. mailing
list issues. Not exactly a coffee-table book about coffee-tables, just
a place for people deal with all things mail, until mail itself is
replaced with some kind of Slashclone/mailmanager hybrid.
I had exactly the same idea a few weeks ago and discussed it here
briefly. In fact, you know that - you proposed it on bugzilla
afterwards:
There was no real support for it. If people here are interested, then
we can reopen the idea.