[WikiEN-l] Coordination on Secret/private lists

[James Farrar]

On 08/12/2007, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> Alec Conroy wrote:
> > On 12/5/07, jayjg <jayjg99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > First of all, Matt and Guy and Slim can't lie about something they
> > can't possibly have known.  The truth is, they have no clue whether
> > the list was used to coordiante or not.  Durova posted to the list
> > about !! to the list--  what responses she got back through email,
> > only Durova and her sleuths know.   People can say "I didn't see any
> > full-formed coordination", but they can't actually know there was no
> > such coordination.
>
> So we now have established that the list was not secret and was not used
> directly to coordinate the !! block.  So Alec shifts gears with a new
> allegation: maybe people responded *privately* to Durova's post with
> support.

This is not a new allegation. It follows logically from statements
from Durova, Jay and others, too.