Re: [72attendees] New mailing list to discuss IETF Food requirements

No.
You'll have to chew and swallow every reply.
Ray

On Aug 22, 2008, at 1:47 PM, Eric Gray wrote:

> Can we all subscribe, say "Cookies" and then unsubscribe?
>
> --
> Eric Gray
> Principal Engineer
> Ericsson
>
>
> From: 72attendees-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:72attendees-bounces@ietf.org 
> ] On Behalf Of Mary Barnes
> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 1:09 PM
> To: 72attendees@ietf.org
> Subject: [72attendees] New mailing list to discuss IETF Food  
> requirements
>
> Hi all,
>
> Dan Wing has helped me setup a mailing list to discuss the dietary  
> requirements for a group of folks at IETF meetings - triggered, of  
> course, by the many threads of discussion on this topic at IETF-72,  
> but something that has caused problems for many of us over many  
> years of IETF meetings - even to the point that the only thing that  
> some folks could consume at the meeting location was beer - at least  
> the Guinness had lots of B vitamins and the gluten-free cider had  
> fruit!
>
> Here's the basic overview and objective for the list:
>
> "This list is for IETF participants that have either medical,  
> religious or ethical dietary requirements - e.g., celiac/gluten  
> intolerance, Kosher, Halal, vegetarian/vegan, food allergies,  
> diabetic, other special diets, etc.. The list is intended to provide  
> a forum for discussion so that we can understand one another's  
> requirements and plan ahead for IETF meetings by both preparing  
> ourselves and the meeting planners."
>
> Here's how you can subscribe:
> https://www.employees.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-food
>
> Hopefully, this will keep much of the discussion off the main  
> meeting lists, although I will post a reminder before and at the  
> meeting for folks that might not be aware.  We certainly welcome  
> anyone to subscribe and my guess (based on the population on  
> average) is that at least 10% of us (really should be 30%, but many  
> folks don't know about their issues yet :)  have food restrictions  
> of some sort.   Folks that are just interested in healthy eating  
> might also want to subscribe,  as the common food denominator for  
> most of these diets is a fairly broad range of whole foods with  
> known ingredients - i.e., without "mystery" additives or processing.
>
> Regards,
> Mary H. Barnes
>
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