Re: Bottom feeders

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood at eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Keith Moore wrote:

> > We *should* worry about people who come to the IETF once and never come 
> > back - because they probably came to the wrong meeting, and went home 
> > unhappy.
> 
> interesting idea.
> 
> so assuming that a lot of folks come to the IETF expecting something
> different than it is, and going home disappointed, what can we do to 
> make future prospective attendees more aware of what they're getting into?

Don't make them more aware at all.

All the work is done on the mailing lists, yes? Only post information
about IETF meet locations etc. to those mailing lists. Do not link to
event registration pages from www.ietf.org. If they're not on any
mailing list, why would they want to come anyway?

L.

'Thirdly, there was often confusion about how to get involved in IETF
 standards effort, submit requirements, and get delivery commitments.'
   -- RFC3002 can be quite unintentionally hilarious at times.

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