Re: [fsf-community-team] Reminder: put your introduction in the Wiki

[James Phillips]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:33:02PM -0500, Holmes Wilson wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Just a quick reminder.  If you haven't already, put your introduction in 
> the wiki, linked next to your name:
> 
> http://groups.fsf.org/wiki?title=Group:FSF/Community_Team/Planning&action=edit&section=1
> 
> And would somebody like to volunteer to collect any stragglers' 
> introductions and put them in the wiki?

Hello,

I am one of the straglers. The first time I didn't add my information, I 
didn't want go go looking for my list password. Now that I tried it, I 
see that I am expected to create a separate "LibrePlanet" account.

I was initially not able to create an account:
I was recieving an invalid password error because my  login name 
exceeded 8 characters. (or maybe the text captcha was a dummy that 
flagged a moderator)


> 
> Once they're all collected (or most of them) I'll let you know and we 
> can start adding comments and suggestions to each others' sample 
> responses.  Normally, people will be joining the list at a slower pace, 
> so this can happen piecemeal.  But since we're in this kind of 
> bootstrapping phase right now, it seems like dong things in a big batch 
> is the best way to go.

Possibly off-topic, but is this list moderated? When I first signed up 
the archives were empty, so I assumed there was a better than 50% chance 
that initial posts were private. I included some cyber-stalking tips in 
my email that I have been debating about putting on my website. I guess 
the "cat is out of the bag" now. :/

I have noticed I am not the only one who made such an assumption: I have 
seen two intro posts without the list pas5w0rd5 scrubbed. In both cases 
I sent the person in question an e-mail alerting them to that fact. Me 
being able to do this seems to contradict the following statement:
"This is a hidden list, which means that the list of members
   is available only to the list administrator."
 Linkname: fsf-community-team Info Page
 URL: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsf-community-team


I suppose seeing the address of the sender is not exactly the same 
thing, but my initial impression was that all addresses would be translated to 
something like: address@hidden

The reason I think the list is moderated is that during my initial 
(second) post, I suddenly recieved ~20 messages. In addition, I have 
seen several double posts were the sender said to the effect:
"Did not see my initial message, so assuming filters got it."


Regards,


James Phillips

PS: I will be adding my name to the wiki shortly.
PPS: used L33T-speak to avoid unwanted notice from search engine users 
using a common search term.
PPps: I just realized the posts in question may come up anyway.