[Foundation-l] How was the "only people who averaged two edits a week in the last six months can vote" rule decided?

[Milos Rancic]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Ryan Lomonaco<wiki.ral315 at gmail.com> wrote:
> The rules did disenfranchise me, for example.  It doesn't bother me that I
> can't vote, but that said, I would've liked to vote if eligible.  I am not
> active on Wikipedia, but I do follow the mailing lists, and have followed
> the election process.  If I really wanted to, I could've racked up 50 edits
> to get a vote, but that almost seems "dirty", I guess, to make edits just to
> regain eligibility for the election.

I think that mailing lists posts should be treated as edits.