Re: [dean@av8.com: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu>]

In message <433809FE.4070903 at dcrocker.net>, Dave Crocker writes:
>> Without getting into the discussion of whether an email every 5 days is a
>> DOS I would certainly like to state for the record that without question the
>> pettiness has taken far more thought than the productivity, and so if Dean's
>> posts are a DOS then the posts trying to protect us from them have been an
>> atom bomb.
>
>
>That's the reason the process model delegates handling such problems to 
>specific individuals, rather than having all of us, together, participate in 
>the review and assessment. 

Actually, 3683 specifically requires community discussion of motions to 
block someone's posting rights.  It is, in so many words, done by a 
Last Call.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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