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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Thu, 18 December 2014 19:33 UTC

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On 19/12/2014 04:48, John C Klensin wrote:

> (1) A new I-D announcement on i-d-announce
> (2) A copy of that announcement on the WG mailing list

If you set 'no duplicates' globally in mailman, you only get
one of these.

> (3) A "New Version notification" for the I-D

I have no idea what the purpose of this message is.
It arrives a few seconds after clicking the confirmation
button, and a few seconds or minutes before the I-D
announcement, but conveys no additional information.

On the other hand, I think the tracker state updates
and any hand-crafted follow-ups do convey information.

   Brian

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