Re: Proposal for keeping "free speech" but limitting the nuisance to the working group (Was: John Cowan supports 3683 PR-action against Jefsey Morfin)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

--On 24. januar 2006 20:46 +0100 Jeroen Massar <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote:

> My proposal to solve this issue but keeping everybody happy:
>
> Two mailinglists: <wg>@ietf.org + full.<wg>@ietf.org
>
> full.<wg>@ is completely open, anybody can post anything they want
> though hopefully on topic on the subject of the workinggroup and of
> course based on the source address having a subscription *1
> full.<wg>@ is subscribed to <wg>@ thus full.wg gets everything
> preserving, at least parts, of the freedom of speech that is wanted and
> for the people who want to read a lot of mail everyday.

In fact this has been implemented at least once that I know of - on the 
DNSO GA mailing list. The "full" version had relatively few subscribers.

You can find the archives of that experiment at 
<http://www.dnso.org/dnso/gaarchives.html> - it's probably difficult to 
guess from the archives whether it was successful; better ask someone who 
was there at a time whether they think it worked.

Another variant is the ietf-censored version of the IETF list that I ran 
for a while, but left to others when becoming IETF chair - google claims 
that <http://vesuvio.ipv6.tilab.com/mailman/listinfo/ietf_censored> is a 
current page for it. Some people liked it; I don't know what filters are 
currently in place for it, but it doesn't seem to be working - archives 
have spam in them, but no IETF list traffic, so I guess it's not working.

                   Harald

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