Anthere-
This was resolved **amply** in personal discussion on IRC (and a tiny little bit on meta itself) with him directly.
Great. Then why did your first message start with "Today, aplank .." and not with "I have suggested a new .."? Even the subject line of this thread is now "Perl". I have tried to explain to you before that carrying out every little dispute in public is a good recipe for escalation. Please, let's try to separate policy issues from personal issues as much as reasonably possible. If you need examples, you can always write "a sysop". If you want to desysop Perl, this is not the right forum to discuss that.
I disagree unfortunately. On the principle I agree, but practically, who is registered to foundation-l for now ?
There are currently 90 members on foundation-l, including most of the individuals who participated in this thread.
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
That is more than enough for a policy announcement.
Regards,
Erik