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Re: It's time for some new steps (was: [Welcome to the "Ietf-honest" mailing list])

"David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org> Tue, 10 February 2009 17:21 UTC

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From: "David W. Hankins" <David_Hankins@isc.org>
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Subject: Re: It's time for some new steps (was: [Welcome to the "Ietf-honest" mailing list])
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On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:20:22PM -0500, Scott Brim wrote:
> Dean's mail does not hurt any of us.  OK, it does take a minute of our
> time to unsubscribe but that's it.  The ietf list will see the same

Spam behaviour on the Internet is not "wrong" simply because the email
of one individual is intolerable, but rather because the behaviour of
a hive of such individuals is intractable.

So please decide right now precisely how many lists like Dean's would
be tractable, and create a process to reserve a place in that list.

-- 
David W. Hankins	"If you don't do it right the first time,
Software Engineer		     you'll just have to do it again."
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.		-- Jack T. Hankins

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