[Foundation-l] moderate this list

Sun Aug 30 19:15:46 UTC 2009

> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Anders Wennersten <
> anders.wennersten at bonetmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am for the moment active in some 15 wikimedia mailgroups. I have
>> compared the working on foundation-l with internal-l for instance and
>> find that almost the same topics are up with very much the same people
>> and arguments, but where on internal a complicated issue can take 20-30
>> mails whereafter often some type a consensus is reached , I find on
>> foundation-l some 200-300 mail in the same subject with no firm
>> conclusion.
>
>
> I'm sure you'd find the same sort of thing if you compared a town hall
> meeting in North Korea with a town hall meeting in New Hampshire.  I
> wouldn't take very much comfort in that.
>

Anthony,

I'm not sure they ever have community meetings of any sort in North
Korea, but generally a New England town meeting is a lot like Wikipedia.
People who have a long history of being unconstructive blowhards are
generally ignored.

Fred