Re: Corporate email attachment filters and IETF emails

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 09 December 2009 17:09 UTC

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To: Dave CROCKER <dcrocker@bbiw.net>
Subject: Re: Corporate email attachment filters and IETF emails
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Dave CROCKER wrote:
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Wes Hardaker wrote:
>>> ...
>>> But consider the fact that: half the purpose of posting an ID is to get
>>> comments about it sent to you.  Consider then that if you have any sort
>>> of aggressive filtering in place that's blocking your receipt of the
>>> verification messages then the chances are very very high that you'll
>>> also block comments from some random person out there that happens to
>>> look questionable to your companies blocking algorithms.
>>> ...
>>
>> I would hope that the ID actually points out a specific IETF mailing 
>> list for comments, and the author is reading it.
> 
> 
> Sometime back, I tried to convince folks that such a pointer should be 
> required for all I-Ds.  It did not get any traction.

I happen to agree that it should be mandatory.

> ...

BR, Julian