[Foundation-l] private-l (was Re: Information flow)

Puddl Duk wrote: I assume you mean private-l. I'm not sure where Erik said that it had all the smartest people on it, but he did mention that he was sending his Google report to it. Anyway, it sounds like a fair request to me. The members are: Anthere Angela Brion Vibber Domas Mituzas Elian Jason Richey Jens Frank Jeronim Jimmy Wales Kate Mark Bergsma Erik Moeller Sannse Tim Starling Basically the sysadmins plus a few extras. The last 20 subject lines are as follows, in reverse chronological order, with explanatory text added in square brackets where necessary: Hardware donations Fwd: "Powered by MediaWiki" Badge Questions mail.wikimedia.org offline; Kennisnet support issues Google report Servers proposal, about France site Fwd: interview [hardware tech] Wikimedia domain expirations Request for alteration to mailing list archives pascal.knams.wikimedia.org down; Kennisnet contact? (no subject) [Wapedia] WikiMania Hacking Days Fwd: RE: Potential copyright violation in Wikipedia Fwd: Access to Wikipedia dumps Fwd: Wikipedia privacy issue Mirror Wikipedia Yahoo cluster and policies Wikimedia/Bomis [cc'ed email to colocation facility] Fwd: Re: Lifting of IP Block Wikipedia machines [Yahoo] Sygate warning That takes us back about 6 weeks. As you can see, the topics are mostly technical. In summary, the list consists of: * Dealings with external organisations which are required by those external organisation to be kept confidential * Technical information which is security-sensitive * Privacy-related issues * The occasional miscellaneous post The list only allows members to post, so please direct queries on these issues to the usual mailing addresses. Sannse, Elian and the Board handle incoming email requests using OTRS, and pass them on to private-l if they think the issue would benefit from discussion with that audience. -- Tim Starling