[Foundation-l] Business Related List

[Jeff V. Merkey]

Michael Bimmler wrote:

>On 9/5/06, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
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>>Luiz Augusto wrote:
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>>>Sorry Jeffrey V. Merkey but all of your messages related to machine
>>>translations in a project >OUTSIDE< of Wikimedia Foudation is reported as
>>>Spam by me, using "Report Spam" button on Gmail system.
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>>As said, A business related list is needed. This posting is a good
>>example why...
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>If you have a high-priority and/or important business question, which
>you want to be answered by nobody but Foundation officials, why don't
>you just write an email to the Foundation? There is board at wikimedia
>dot org and bpatrick at wikimedia dot org (Brad Patrick, general
>counsel & Interim Executive Director WMF) for your convenience. 
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I do this all the time with Brad and those emails dont make it to this list.

>I
>don't think that you can prohibit community members from expressing
>themselves when using a mailing list. There is private email for
>business purposes.
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I am not trying to prohibit anyone from expressing themselves, in fact, 
it's the other way
around, I am often the target of folks oppressing my expressions for 
purely political reasons.
I have no problem using the foundation list for progress on African 
languages and other programs, but a business
oriented list would be a better solution. The problem with the community 
moderator concept
here is there may be other businesses spring up and when a non-employee 
threatens to moderate
or does moderate someone on such a list, there are some issues 
potentially created for the foundation.
Issues I would rather not deal with.

Jeff

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