Re: Unannounced list status changes considered harmful

Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Tue, 18 April 2006 11:08 UTC

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Cc: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>, gmane-discuss@hawk.netfonds.no, ietf@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Unannounced list status changes considered harmful
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Sam Hartman wrote:
>>>>>>"Frank" == Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> writes:
> 
> 
>     Frank> Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
>     >> Please provide more data (off-list) as this seems odd.
> 
>     Frank> Will do (ordinary moderation bounce), but on list I should
>     Frank> fix the bogus URLs I've posted here (I forgot one "gmane",
>     Frank> sorry):
> 
>     Frank> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.tools (NNTP, RSS, HTTP,
>     Frank> search) http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.ima (NNTP, RSS,
>     Frank> HTTP, search)
> 
> Note that for WG lists, it is reasonable to require manual moderation
> of non-subscriber postings but these postings must be promptly
> approved.  It is not appropriate to ask people to subscribe in order
> to contribute to a working group.

And the rules haven't changed for almost 6 years:

http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/moderated-lists.txt
(posted August 29, 2000)

     Brian

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