It is disingenuous to suggest that, in posting to a *public* mailing list, the risk that your post will be public is not clear.

I think it's a shame that a trustee doesn't wish to be subscribe to the mailing list that is the primary method of communication between WMUK and the UK Wikimedia community and of discussion amongst the UK community, and I honestly think that such a refusal to engage with the community would hamper one's effectiveness as a trustee.

I applaud and thank the list admins for finally restoring this list to public status - we shouldn't be seen to be discussing things behind closed doors, not least because it goes against the very principles of openness on which the Wikimedia projects and Wikimedia UK were founded, and there was a consensus to do so some considerable time ago.

Harry Mitchell

http://enwp.org/User:HJ

Phone: 024 7698 0977

Skype: harry_j_mitchell

From: Fae <faenwp@gmail.com>
To: James Forrester <jdforrester@gmail.com>
Cc: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2012, 22:28
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Status of this list and its archives

Thanks James. In light of this I'll unsubscribe from this list until
such a time as the risks for new subscribers are made completely clear
on joining. I will recommend the chapter considers it's stance on
whether the list can be recommended as a service for members.

Fae

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