[OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

[Paul Norman]

> From: sly (sylvain letuffe) [mailto:liste at letuffe.org]
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 7:41 AM
> To: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update
> 
> On vendredi 21 septembre 2012, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> > This is not about "one rule". This is about the whole question of
> > rules and authority.
> 
> No problems, let's also talk about rules and authority.
> But we (french community) are facing one problem right now, not
> "problems", one problem, and this problem appeared one month ago. Are
> you asking us to let go with the only reason that "this will probably,
> one day, be solved by a new document we are secretly discussing" so
> please wait ? and accept, that, during all this discussion M. Norman
> (from who I have much respect for his volounteer work of tracking and
> stopping vandalism) is still blocking users of our community :
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/248
> because that poor guy doesn't read english, was following what we've
> always done. With, I admit an terrible error that will also be detected
> by our own radars and that I have starting to discuss the issues with
> him ?

A 0-hour block is largely placed to make sure that the message is read. They
go away when someone logs in and reads the message. If you can suggest an
email that I can cc initial messages to for follow up I could do so.