There are too many emails in this thread since I last read it for me to reply to them separately, so will just post a general monologue and hopefully address most of the points made. Please excuse the length of this email.
I consider this a discussion list, first and foremost. It is used for making announcements, for drawing attention to things going on elsewhere and various other purposes, but above all else it is here for discussion. Discussion is an exchange of ideas. While I do not find all of the ideas expressed useful or interesting, I strongly believe that any idea expressed with a genuine intention of furthering the goals of the Wikimedia movement should be allowed to be spoken (not necessarily here, there are better venues for some ideas, of course) and if that prompts someone else to have an idea they wish to express in response, they should be able to do so. To restrict people to one post a day would completely stop that exchange of ideas, all you would get is a sequence of monologues. People can start blogs if they wish to post monologues (I have recently been considering doing just that). I much prefer lists like this one to contain short messages in reply to other short messages with a quick back and forward of ideas building upon the ideas of others. It has been said that I post a lot. In terms of total number of emails that is certainly accurate, however if someone were to count the bytes posted (excluding quotes of previous messages) I suspect my contribution would be little different to that of many other active subscribers to this list. I don't generally write long messages (this one is an exception to that), I write short replies to the messages of others. I think this list fulfils its purpose far better through such messages. As long as people use modern email clients there is no real disadvantage to splitting things into lots of messages (if you are not using such an email client then that is your problem, not me - if it is your choice, then make a better one, if it is forced upon you then complain to the person doing that forcing, don't complain to me). It has been suggested that posting a lot diminishes the value of each post. I'm afraid those saying that simply don't have a good understanding of economics. There are two ways something can get value - from utility and from scarcity. I would hope my emails are valuable because they are useful. In this context, scarcity is pretty much irrelevant. Finally, I know from private conversations that there are people that read my emails and find them useful. I write for them. If you are not in that group, you are welcome to ignore me. You are even welcome to complain about me to anyone that will listen, but I reserve the right not to be in that group. Thank you for reaching the end of this email. I hope it has helped you understand my views on this subject. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
