Re: IETF mailing list

[Frank Kastenholz <kasten%europa.interlan.com at RELAY.CS.NET>]

 > From owner-ietf at venera.isi.edu Tue Nov  6 03:24:44 1990
 > Posted-Date: Mon, 05 Nov 90 18:29:32 -0500
 > Received-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 16:28:21 -0800
 > To: Frank Kastenholz <kasten%europa.interlan.com at relay.cs.net>
 > Cc: ietf at venera.isi.edu
 > Subject: Re: IETF mailing list 
 > From: vcerf at NRI.Reston.VA.US
 > 
 > Frank,
 > 
 > There is no written use policy for the IETF list; I am using
 > it and the discussions we've been having to explore whether
 > having a written policy would be helpful and, if we did, what
 > it might look like.
 > 
 > Your points are consistent with those others have been making.
 > 
 > Vint
 > 

Vint,

I am somewhat confused/concerned here. I always
have believed in the "If it ain't broke then don't
fix it" policy. Is something "broke"? I would
hate for us to develop a policy merely because we
don't have one. 

If someone is complaining about the types of mail on
this list, that's different and I would hope that the 
complainant is joining in the discussion. 

If we are doing "research" into mailing list policies,
I would hope that anything we do would be offered to
the community at large as a prototype mail list policy.

I am not sure that we need a policy for this list.
I have not seen any mail on the list that I find
offensive nor bothersome in any way. True, there were
some complaints before the Pittsburgh IETF when the
discussion digressed into which city has the worst
traffic/potholes/etc, however that issue seems to have
been settled (the appropriateness of the discussion,
not the size of the potholes :-) more or less to everyones
public satisfaction.

Cheers
Frank Kastenholz
Racal Interlan