That's nice, but as a business decision the
wikimedia foundation has
decided to host our corporate email with Google. For personal mail we
all have the choice of whatever system we would like, but this
business decision has been made for us, and if someone wants a
wikimedia.org address, I don't think it's an onerous burden to require
that they use our current infrastructure to access it, instead of
requiring us to do a lot of difficult workarounds. Unless I've missed
something, using
wikimedia.org for non-employees is a option, not a
necessity.
It was my understanding that part of this discussion was to require
volunteers to use a specific mail server to post to the list....but now
I can't find the message that gave me that impression, so maybe I've
misunderstood the nature of the thread?
(I'm leaving out arguments about the decision to host with Google, but
it seems like a relevant thing, perhaps there are archived discussions
that I could read?)
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Mark Holmquist
Contractor, Wikimedia Foundation
mtraceur(a)member.fsf.org