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Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:20:06 +0100
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Subject: Re: [proposal] integrating womAn@a.o into an Apache code of practice
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On 30/07/2010 13:36, Shane Curcuru wrote:
> Anjana G Bhattacharjee wrote:
>> Just a note to mark 7 days since the date of this proposal - thank you
>> for
>> all responses so far - still listening ;-) best, A
>
> Oh, sorry, I had thought it was an intellectual exercise to spur some
> new thoughts and get some random golf-related links into our archives
> for some reason.
>
> -1, because we've shown numerous times that broadly scoped mailing lists
> that aren't controlled by a healthy PMC won't work.
>
> -1 also because we have no need to provide anonymization services like
> the proposal notes the woman@ address would be used for. While people
> are free to use whatever external email address for themselves they
> wish, the ASF doesn't need to provide an anonymous front-end for them.

An additional -1 because we are a charity and cannot undertake 
activities that are intended to generate a profit.

Ross