On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Cary Bass<cary(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Mailing lists don't get opened by mailing list
discussions
Hm. I also filed a request on mediazilla, which was automatically
assigned to you.
and the "largely positive" responses you
received were neither > numerous nor meritorious of creating yet another list whose
function has been duplicated in other locations.
I could determine neither consensus based on your email nor a > pressing need for this
list.
This could have been expressed by you earlier on the wikien-l list,
where you do occasionally participate. I disagree with all of it, but
I could not say anything about it, because you did not express it in
any way.
I also emailed the English functionaries-l list to
see if someone > would provide corroboration that the project merited such an
email list.
I cannot access functionaries-l. That means that your communications
there, in addition to being "private," were also "unwiki" -
considering we were discussing it openly on wikien-l and mediazilla.
The only responses I have received were private ones
suggesting it would result in another layer of bureaucracy, and > nobody on list.
If you could either forward these emails to me, or else summarize
their criticisms here, that would be wonderful.
(continued..)
-Steven