Strange... I was already confirmed, but I didn't click the link yet. On Dec 28, 2007 6:21 PM, E <e.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Leia Yeung Glacier Wolf @ en.wikipedia, wikia

On 28/12/2007, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote: UC's been a Wikipedian since it was wikipedia.com, and I'd trust him with all sorts of evil details. But I'm sure there's wording out there for a suitable privacy policy all ready to use, and pointers would be most useful. (I occasionally wonder at how valuable wikien-l is, and have recently considered roughly fortnightly asking the other listmods to with me ask the Foundation to shut the thing as less useful than nothing. It's been better in the last few months, but still not quite fit for human consumption. I dunno.) - d. - d.

I hate email and think the reverse is true - I would be far more willing to discuss things on a forum than on this mailing list. On Jan 1, 2008 6:52 PM, Earle Martin <wikipedia(a)downlode.org> wrote: -- ~~~~ Violet/Riga

On Jan 1, 2008 1:52 PM, Earle Martin <wikipedia(a)downlode.org> wrote: I think the biggest advantage of email lists is that I can access all of them in one place. I'm subscribed to about a dozen different mailing lists which I can access all at once under the "mailing lists" label in gmail. So I get threads from Larry Sanger's SharedKnowing mailing list (http://mail.citizendium.org/mailman/listinfo/sharedknowing) mixed with threads from the Tor mailing list or-talk (http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/) mixed with threads from the Tampa linux user group (http://slug.archives.nks.net/List/) mixed with threads from the OpenStreetMap mailing list, etc. I can search all of these from one location, no one can delete messages on them out from under me, I find it very convenient. If I want to read one of the mailing lists individually I can do that too, but I pretty much never do this. I guess some people wouldn't like this, but for me it's almost essential. When Citizendium switched their mailing list to forums and made their mailing list announce-only, my participation fell off dramatically. I've recently tried setting up their forums to send me an email whenever a new thread on the forums is started, but it isn't working very well. Gmail doesn't thread it properly, I have to mark each thread I want to follow separately, I lose the messages between the first and whenever I marked the thread. It doesn't work. In theory there should be a way to get the best of both worlds, though. Just let me set a flag on the forum to send me an email every time a message is added, properly titled and referenced for any email program which handles threading, and let me reply to the messages by email (and pick up the references or whatever in the email header to direct the message to the right spot in the forums).