On 5/19/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023@comcast.net wrote:
Anthony:
May I enquire as to why your e-mail address is wikilegal?
Yes, you may.
On 5/19/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 5/19/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023@comcast.net wrote:
Anthony:
May I enquire as to why your e-mail address is wikilegal?
Yes, you may.
I originally created the email address in order to read the wikilegal-l mailing list. At the time I was using two separate email accounts, one for reading the mailing lists, and another for posting to the mailing lists. This was a pain in the ass, but it was better than the alternative of receiving lots of spam. Then I found out about the gmail feature which allows you to send mail from different email addresses. Problem solved, and now I could abandon my other email account. Except now a new problem was introduced: when a message is crossposted to multiple mailing lists, one must be subscribed under the same email address to all mailing lists or else the post gets moderated. So I had to sign up for all the mailing lists under the same email address. As it turns out I'm actually signed up for some mailing lists under lots of email addresses, I'd basically keep signing up every time the mail bounced. The wikilegal address seems to have propagated to all the mailing lists, or at least most of them. If there was an easy way to get an address unmoderated on *all* the mailing lists at once, I'd have changed it by now, as a small number of people have claimed to be confused by it.
So there's the story. Wasn't that interesting to everyone?
Anthony
Anthony wrote:
On 5/19/07, Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
On 5/19/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023@comcast.net wrote:
Anthony:
May I enquire as to why your e-mail address is wikilegal?
Yes, you may.
I originally created the email address in order to read the wikilegal-l mailing list. At the time I was using two separate email accounts, one for reading the mailing lists, and another for posting to the mailing lists. This was a pain in the ass, but it was better than the alternative of receiving lots of spam. Then I found out about the gmail feature which allows you to send mail from different email addresses. Problem solved, and now I could abandon my other email account. Except now a new problem was introduced: when a message is crossposted to multiple mailing lists, one must be subscribed under the same email address to all mailing lists or else the post gets moderated. So I had to sign up for all the mailing lists under the same email address. As it turns out I'm actually signed up for some mailing lists under lots of email addresses, I'd basically keep signing up every time the mail bounced. The wikilegal address seems to have propagated to all the mailing lists, or at least most of them. If there was an easy way to get an address unmoderated on *all* the mailing lists at once, I'd have changed it by now, as a small number of people have claimed to be confused by it.
So there's the story. Wasn't that interesting to everyone?
I have no objection to what e-mail address you use, and clearly the people at inbox.org don't either. We don't have a monopoly over all words containing the string "wiki". I have mixed views on the various substantive points that Anthony attempts to make, but it belittles the importance of those issues if we get hung up on such a trivial point as the name he uses with the unrelated ISP of his choice.
Ec
On 5/19/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
I have no objection to what e-mail address you use, and clearly the people at inbox.org don't either.
No, "they" certainly don't. (I own inbox.org. One of the best domains I picked up back in 1997, around the time they opened up .org to other than just non-profit organizations, I believe)
Anthony
I would like to ask that Anthony be placed on moderation or simply kicked off the list completely.
There is such a thing as honest dissent and debate. And there there is trolling.
On May 19, 2007, at 3:36 PM, Anthony wrote:
On 5/19/07, Casey Brown cbrown1023@comcast.net wrote:
Anthony:
May I enquire as to why your e-mail address is wikilegal?
Yes, you may.
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On 5/20/07, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia.com wrote:
I would like to ask that Anthony be placed on moderation or simply kicked off the list completely.
There is such a thing as honest dissent and debate. And there there is trolling.
If ya can't beat 'em, call 'em a troll. Good show.
Anthony
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