I do not see well how it adresses the general issue Tom. Perhaps I did not understand what you meant ?
As for mailing lists, I moderated the french one for a year, and I had to delete between 10 to 20 spam per day at some point.
Organisation of a press release is totally appropriate on the wiki iself. I contributed a lot to the french ones and collaborative work was quite successful. The second press release was sent to many places, with few double sending.
However, when I send the press release to some major newspapers, I also received sometimes no answer, and once an answer which said "could you get me in contact with an official please". The only official I know right now is Jimbo. I do not think it is Jimbo's job to stamp a press release made by the french wikipedia. He has other things to do.
How can a mailing list adress can help in showing this journalist (or whoever), that I can be trusted and sending a press release that is in line with the community opinion of what Wikipedia is ?
Did you meet the problem ? How did you solve it ?
Anthere
--- "Thomas R. Koll" tomk32@gmx.de wrote:
On Sat, May 08, 2004 at 01:03:02AM -0700, Anthere wrote:
Example : Public relations : someone who organise press releases, give interviews, etc. Trying to
find
funding probably comes in here.
on de: we have an info@wikipedia.de which is subscribed by a few of our administrators. Most mails are spam, a few easy questions and seldom we have to chat about the answer before sending it. It works quite fine.
ciao, tom
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