[WikiEN-l] Introducing a new mailing list

[The Cunctator]

On 12/5/06, Stan Shebs <stanshebs at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Bryan Derksen wrote:
> > This is all semantic quibbling. The basic situation is simply this;
> > Wikimedia has a mailing list for the discussion of editing Wikipedia,
> > and I am not permitted to join this mailing list because I happen to be
> > male (a "condition" that has no affect whatsoever on my editing, and
> > which is only known because years back I decided to use my real name
> > instead of some uninformative pseudonym).
> >
> > That is discrimination. Whether it's "reverse" of not is of no concern
> > to me, the effect is exactly the same.
> >
> Yawn. Sorry, you're not Rosa Parks. Do you barge into women's restrooms
> and start declaiming about reverse discrimination there too?
>
> If wikichix-l members develop a consensus decision about something that
> actually affects WP, they'll have to present it more widely sooner or
> later, which will give you plenty of opportunity to savage it.


When you wrote "savage it" I believe you misspelled "carefully consider and
respectfully discuss it".