On 16/06/14 13:03, billinghurst wrote:
I am looking for a productive mailing list that discusses matters of importance to the Wikimedia community. That the people on such a list can have these discussions politely, respectfully, and with concern for others in that the words that say, and attitudes taken. I want to see announcements, I want to see a higher quality of conversation on what should be a flaglist in the mailing list space of Wikimedia.
That's a tautology. You can't postmoderate a mailing list. There's not even any meaningful access control (luckily the trolls haven't figured that out yet). You can't even premoderate in any meaningful way, because people use "reply all" to send messages directly to the thread participants. So there's not really any way to do better than what we're doing already.
People get angry when there are 10 posts in a row on a topic that they don't care about, because they use unthreaded clients and so have no way to organise messages into groups. And people that do use threaded clients are constantly annoyed when people send to the list in a way that breaks threading.
The way to have a better mailing list is to not use a mailing list. NNTP with a web frontend would be better in pretty much every way.
-- Tim Starling