On 9/5/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
David, what is a nuisance, a pain, or rubbish to you, may not be to me.
While this is true, I think this thread has shown pretty clearly that you are a fairly far outlier in terms of your social expectations. Not that this is a bad thing, but it would be unwise to expect the list to change to meet those expectations, at least while the general consensus remains as it is.
If your proposals are accepted, and the mailing list becomes disagreeable to the majority of its active users (as they have indicated it would), to the point that they leave and go elsewhere, *what has been gained?* This sort of thinking, elevating pragmatics over principle in all but a few cases, has been enshrined in the project since the beginning, in the form of [[Wikipedia:Ignore all rules]], and that spirit continues to inform the vast majority (one hopes!) of the community.
-Michael Noda