[Foundation-l] How to kill a mailing list

[Steven Walling]

+1 to what Geoffrey said.

Steven Walling

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I support the changes, its cleaned up my inbox and made the discussions I'm
> seeing more worthy of attention. The list is running better than ever.
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> From: Benjamin Lees <emufarmers at gmail.com>
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 9:43:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How to kill a mailing list
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> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <
> cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Anthony wrote:
> > > August 2009: 1030
> > > September 2009: 791
> > > October 2009: 326
> > > November 2009: 513
> > > December 2009: 234
> > > January 2010: 207
> > > February 2010: 213
> > > March 2010: ???
> > >
> >
> > And your point.
> >
> > Are you claiming credit?
> >
> > Or are you claiming to be the victim?
> >
> >
> The autopsy indicates that it was a suicide.
>
> Presumably he feels that the way the list has been managed has contributed
> to its decline.  I don't disagree in that regard.  On the other hand, raw
> message counts can be misleading: are 200-message threads a good thing?
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