Re: Egonomics

[Vernon Schryver <vjs at calcite.rhyolite.com>]

> From: bill at zeus.geo.net

>To Fred:  I'd hate to see anyone banned from the list.  But, I also hate having
> my mailbox full of non-mail addressing topics of no interest on this planet.
> Maybe the time has come for a moderator.  (No, I'm not volunteering.)    

How about making the reflector at ietf at ietf.org do some rate limiting?
Limiting everyone to a running average of about ~6 messages/month?
Or why not try RED?  Randomly drop messages from everyone and anyone with a
probability that varies with the number of messages seen by the reflector
in the last 4 days?
Either idea would comparatively silence the worst offenders, and would
be "fair."  Neither would require continuing effort by the IAB or IESG.
(Maybe exempt counting the drafts announcments.)


>Enough is enough.  Maybe attendance at one IETF meeting should be a requirement
> to participate in the various IETF lists?

Why?  To maximize the voices of standard issue Standards Committee Go-ers?
I trust you've noticed that the IETF has not been immune from that syndrome
for several years.  Besides, if you read some of the messages from the
kooks, you'll see that at least some of them attend or at least threaten
to attend.


Vernon Schryver    vjs at rhyolite.com