Re: Mail sent to midcom (fwd)

[Keith Moore <moore at cs.utk.edu>]

> > No, I don't care that having a moderator-in-the-middle filtering
> > everything is in the spirit of the midcom charter and must be for my
> > own good. I _really_ don't like the concept of an IETF-approved
> > poster to a mailing list on an IETF-run server.
> 
> Given how trivially easy it is to subscribe to midcom and
> other IETF mailing lists I'm not sure that it's appropriate
> to describe the filtering process as anything but completely
> loose.  

you're missing the point.  one shouldn't have to jump through extra
hoops (even if they're trivial to jump through) just to contribute 
to a working group discussion.

> I'm also not certain that I see the value in having
> people who don't read a mailing list posting to it, but okay,
> whatever.  

for midcom it's especially valuable, since a number of people in
midcom seem to think that they have the right to redesign the
architecture of the Internet.  they definitely need clue inputs 
from elsewhere.

Keith