[WikiEN-l] Mailing list policy

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/9/22 stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>:
> Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Absolutely. The WMF hosts the lists, so has a veto, but generally
>> policy should be entirely determined by the users. Mods interpreting
>> that policy can result in what is essentially new policy, though. (The
>> same happens in law - judges often create new law when judging a
>> specific case.)
>
> Very accurate.
>
> I myself just thought up a new idea that could sort of solve some of
> the crosstalk, OTOT, and noise issues people have been complaining
> about (as if foundation-l was ever supposed to be as sanitized as a
> PR/announce list).
>
> Essentially we can just create a new mailing list for well..  mailing
> list issues. Not exactly a coffee-table book about coffee-tables, just
> a place for people deal with all things mail, until mail itself is
> replaced with some kind of Slashclone/mailmanager hybrid.

I had exactly the same idea a few weeks ago and discussed it here
briefly. In fact, you know that - you proposed it on bugzilla
afterwards:

https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20209

There was no real support for it. If people here are interested, then
we can reopen the idea.