Re: Mail sent to midcom (fwd)

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

On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Melinda Shore wrote:

> The mailing list as delivered unto us by the IETF administrator
> has a preset policy of holding email from someone not on the
> mailing list until it's released by an administrator. 

That is not what the message said.

People posting from multiple or changing addresses are presumably
inconvenienced, since you're checking the email address, not the
person.

So, two specific complaints:

1. unclear message, privately described to me as 'kind of offensive'.
   (you could fire subscription information and a copy of the list
   charter with pointers to workgroup drafts etc. at new email
   addresses not previously seen along with an
   if-you've-seen-this-sorry preface, however. That would be useful
   and inclusive.)

2. morally wrong, contrary to the open inclusive spirit of the
   IETF and just plain risky to be holding *any* email for a
   discussion list for moderator approval in the first place. RFC2418,
   chapter and verse. It's a starting step down a slippery slope. We
   don't want to go there.

L.

is apparently 'approved' by quite a number of IETF mailing lists.

> We can change that if people feel sufficiently strongly.  
> 
> Melinda

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