[Foundation-l] Foundation-l

Michael Bimmler mbimmler at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 12:58:57 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 1:52 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/03/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  > My advice as someone who may well be part of the problem: Don't make
>  >  general complaints and put people on moderation with vague
>  >  accusations. When someone sends an email that you don't think should
>  >  have been sent, reply to that email off-list explaining your why not.
>  >  Keep it specific and you'll get a better response.
>
>
>  Further: attempting to kill a thread will lead to accusatons of trying
>  to suppress dissent. In the recent case (problems with Wikimania in
>  Egypt, which the people running the event were conspicuously absent
>  from), such accusations appeared justified. It's a really stupid thing
>  to do. Don't do that.
>

Um, yes, point taken. I saw that Gregory Maxwell started a new thread
on the situation and I really hope that we can have this discussion in
a serious, on-topic and civil manner. Keep your fingers crossed...

Michael



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