Re: namedroppers mismanagement, continued

[Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@sun.com>]

> I don't care whether Bush's decisions can be adequately explained by
> stupidity. The decisions shouldn't be made by hand in the first place.
> The only acceptable ways to process a message to a standardization
> mailing list are
> 
>    (1) to immediately pass it through unchanged to the subscribers or
>    (2) to immediately bounce it.
> 
> The decision between #1 and #2 must be made by objective standards. The
> bounces must clearly and thoroughly explain the standards. The standards
> must allow the sender to straightforwardly arrange for #1.

I disagree that there is no room for human beings filtering out spam.
Your approach means that an IETF participant can't cross-post messages
to mailing lists to which s/he is not subscribed, which I think would make
inter-WG coordination much more difficult when we need to make it easier.

  Erik


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