[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Request to mailing list Wikichix-l rejected

Tue Dec 5 14:37:16 UTC 2006

On 12/5/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Bogdan Giusca wrote:
> >> Subscription request
> >> has been rejected by the list moderator.  The moderator gave the
> >> following reason for rejecting your request:
> >
> >> "Hi Cunctator. We're only accepting women at this time. I suggest you
> >> comment on the existing Wikimedia lists instead. This presence of this
> >> list isn't meant to prevent men commening - which you can still do on
> >> wikien-l etc."
> >
> > Maybe we should have a mailing list just for men, too! And a mailing
> list
> > for British people where no Americans are allowed! Or a mailing list
> > just for atheists where no Christians would be accepted!
> >
>
> ... a mailing list for homosexual African-Americans from planets other
> than earth?

Now that the article has been deleted I think there is a real need for some
tool (such as a list) to deal with this sort of discrimination!