[WikiEN-l] Re. Susan Mason, I'm not clear what the problem is

[The Cunctator]

On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 06:00, Daniel Mayer wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 March 2003 09:23 pm, Graham Burnett wrote:
> > Well I'm quite new to this mailing list, so forgive my ignorance, but it
> > seems that alot goes on 'behind the scenes' of wikipedia here, 
> 
> Behind the scenes? This is a publicly readable, unmoderated mailing list that 
> is open to anybody with an email account. In addition, a link is on the Main 
> Page says "Mailing lists" and you might have noticed the same link at the top 
> of Recent Changes. Oh and on the "Mailing lists" page is a direct link to the 
> archives where every single post that has ever been made resides - we hide 
> nothing here. 
> 
> Now how in the world is that behind the scenes? Saying this is "behind the 
> scenes" is like saying the the general proceedings of the US Congress are 
> behind the scenes just because you don't bother to watch CSPAN (yeah I know, 
> not everybody who can vote has cable, but everybody who contributes to 
> Wikipedia has access to an Internet connection so our proceeding are in fact 
> /more/ open than Congress - that's not to say that we shouldn't become more 
> open).

Methinks he doth protest too much.