Robert Rohde wrote: .... ....
At some level Foundation-l is a victim of Wikimedia's success. Long-term growth in the brand must inevitably filter into growth in the conversation about Wikimedia. Maybe one can stem that tide for a while by asking for restraint, but sooner or later the only real recourse is to restructure the conversation. Whether that restructuring is best accomplished by new mailing lists or new technologies, is a difficult question to answer, but I'm inclined to believe that mailing lists can't be the answer to everything.
-Robert A. Rohde
Yea, and it would be a pity to throw out the baby with the bathwater...if contributors are watching their backs, as is suggested, we might miss out on a *really* insightful post and we would all be the poorer for it -- luke