Steve,
Not to be mean nor evil, by I hate lengthy emails I actually meant yea If we could keep the emails shorter and on point, we could make more meaningful communication. Lots of people here have dozens of other engagements that involve email exchange and replyng to the same thread in multiple ways is spam and non-communicative.
Yes I am on internal but we cannot compare the kind of politics that happens there to our community discussion list. And no one questioned your contribution to Wikimedia and recognition for the same. Wikipedias hardly show- off their achievements, rather ....
Anyone who hates this lengthy emails as I do? I mean they dont communicate as I end up never reading them but just scan them....