Michael Bimmler wrote:
On 9/5/06, Jeff V. Merkey jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com wrote:
Luiz Augusto wrote:
Sorry Jeffrey V. Merkey but all of your messages related to machine translations in a project >OUTSIDE< of Wikimedia Foudation is reported as Spam by me, using "Report Spam" button on Gmail system.
As said, A business related list is needed. This posting is a good example why...
If you have a high-priority and/or important business question, which you want to be answered by nobody but Foundation officials, why don't you just write an email to the Foundation? There is board at wikimedia dot org and bpatrick at wikimedia dot org (Brad Patrick, general counsel & Interim Executive Director WMF) for your convenience.
I do this all the time with Brad and those emails dont make it to this list.
I don't think that you can prohibit community members from expressing themselves when using a mailing list. There is private email for business purposes.
I am not trying to prohibit anyone from expressing themselves, in fact, it's the other way around, I am often the target of folks oppressing my expressions for purely political reasons. I have no problem using the foundation list for progress on African languages and other programs, but a business oriented list would be a better solution. The problem with the community moderator concept here is there may be other businesses spring up and when a non-employee threatens to moderate or does moderate someone on such a list, there are some issues potentially created for the foundation. Issues I would rather not deal with.
Jeff
Michael