David Gerard wrote:
On 04/12/2007, Bryan Derksen bryan.derksen@shaw.ca wrote:
A suggestion I've been pondering is to expand [[Wikipedia:Mailing lists]] to list _all_ mailing lists where Wikipedia is the topic, annotated and subsectioned to keep the "unofficial" stuff properly segregated of course. The mailing lists don't have to be public or open, IMO merely listing their existence and subject matter would be very useful for keeping paranoia levels down.
This strikes me as hard to enforce. The cyberstalking list started as a cc: list and was then put on Wikia; anyone who feels they have something to say to more than one person without a mob inquiry and consequent Orlowskiing would just keep it as a cc: list. I don't see it as feasible to regulate cc: lists.
I wasn't considering cc: lists at all, there isn't really anything to actually link to in those cases. I was only thinking of the sorts of mailing lists like cyberstalking or wpinvestigations, which had a mailman server and such.
"Enforcement" probably wouldn't be a hard and fast thing either, if it were simply accepted and customary that any mailing lists where Wikipedia's the topic of discussion got listed there I imagine most would wind up being listed there by someone or another.