[Foundation-l] How to kill a mailing list

Wed Mar 17 06:09:36 UTC 2010

I support the changes, its cleaned up my inbox and made the discussions I'm seeing more worthy of attention. The list is running better than ever.

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From: Benjamin Lees <emufarmers at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tue, March 16, 2010 9:43:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How to kill a mailing list

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <
cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anthony wrote:
> > August 2009: 1030
> > September 2009: 791
> > October 2009: 326
> > November 2009: 513
> > December 2009: 234
> > January 2010: 207
> > February 2010: 213
> > March 2010: ???
> >
>
> And your point.
>
> Are you claiming credit?
>
> Or are you claiming to be the victim?
>
>
The autopsy indicates that it was a suicide.

Presumably he feels that the way the list has been managed has contributed
to its decline.  I don't disagree in that regard.  On the other hand, raw
message counts can be misleading: are 200-message threads a good thing?
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