Re: Old directions in social media.

[Michael Thomas <[e-mail]>]

On 1/6/21 7:24 AM, Keith Moore wrote:
> On 1/6/21 10:13 AM, Michael Thomas wrote:
>
>> I disagree. Most of the time the soi-disant "generalilsts" are just 
>> self-aggrandizing and like to hear themselves speak. I remember when 
>> we were creating the DKIM working group we had a whole bunch of them 
>> and their "input" ended up contributing nothing at all other than delay. 
>
> There are also plenty of people in IETF, who aren't generalists, who 
> like to hear themselves speak.
>
> DKIM, or anything that remotely had to do with thwarting spam, may 
> have been atypical.   So many people are burned by spam and have naive 
> ideas about how to address it, that such groups attract a lot of 
> contributors with widely varying levels of expertise. And 
> unfortunately, there's a broad tendency within IETF to disregard the 
> input of anyone and everyone who wants to address that problem and has 
> even a slightly different idea.   But I don't think such groups are 
> representative of the whole.
>
Fortunately, I knitted.

Mike