Those aren't wikipedia, they are archives of messages sent to a mailing list for wikipedia. And wouldn't a private email have been better, or maybe a phone call? I can understand international rates might be insane though! On 8/1/05, Thijs van Domburg <mail(a)thijsvandomburg.nl> wrote:

Andrew Venier (avenier(a)venier.net) [050802 15:57]: Yeah, but *this* post *was* to wikien-l itself.

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The irony with this is that having his name public helps in the protection of his copyrights. :-)

From: Arkady Rose <arkady(a)arkady.org.uk> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] [mail(a)thijsvandomburg.nl: Sesame Street] Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 00:05:29 +0100 Thijs van Domburg wrote: As per the mailing list webpage (at http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l): "*All emails to wikien-l are available on the public web archive.* If you do not want your message on the World Wide Web, do not send it to a Wikimedia mailing list." If you don't want your full name to appear in the archives, don't use it when posting to the mailing list. Posting to the list is tacit acceptance of the terms of the list which includes agreeing to having your posts and their contents publically archived. regards, Arkady _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l