On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Jimmy Wales wrote:
I'm not sure what Ed's talking about, vis-a-vis the vote, but to be clear, I kicked Plautus off the list on my own initiative because I'm sick of his nonsense.
Please know that this guy is sending me many many many emails that I can only charitably describe as perplexing.
He seems to think that somehow Disney is behind all this, among a number of other interesting theories about people using pre-arranged and encrypted signals, etc.
Great. All this time I thought I was contributing to something that wouldn't get gobbled up by corporate culture, & now I find I'm just another stooge for Disney, soon to be a Paul ("I made the Trailblazers a mediocre NBA Team") Allen possession. I also expect anyday to find on every page of Wikipedia a "This page best viewed in Internet Explorer 5.0."
(Okay, so the above was not very funny. At least I'm not the upteenth person to repeat the obvious comment "I always suspected this was a Mickey Mouse project" to the confusion of the non-USA people. ;)
Geoff