Re: [Gendispatch] Let's restore and evolve our plenary function (Re: Ending [e-mail])

[Vittorio Bertola <[e-mail]>]

>     Il 04/04/2021 17:15 Keith Moore <[e-mail]> ha scritto:
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>     A lot of the effectiveness of an email-based approach depends on what user agents people use, which in turn influence their email reading habits.   For instance, I have no problem ignoring messages from threads that I don't find interesting, whereas other people seem to experience those messages as a huge burden.   I expect that the difference is related to the tools we are each using.   But there's a lot of inertia around the user agents and email systems that people use, and for multiple reasons it's hard for people to change tools.   
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>     I fully expect that whatever new ideas IETF came up with would eventually need a web interface, so that users would have multiple choices for how to access that system.
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Should the choice go for an email-based system, there are several open source webmail platforms that the IETF could adopt and customize to whatever UI is desired, like it did with Meetecho. People could still access their IETF email with other tools but the IETF webmail would give them special UI features, including custom email filters and integration with documents and perhaps even with git repos and with RFC tools, and with Meetecho itself. I am not fond of customized tooling but this is indeed a possibility.

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