Current mailbombing is instigated by FSF

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 09 February 2009 22:55 UTC

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http://www.fsf.org/news/reoppose-tls-authz-standard

While I have a lot of sympathy for the cause, I have very little  
sympathy for the methods.
Rendering a mailing list that might be useful for actually resolving  
the issue inoperative by a "campaign" is idiotic.
Somebody from I* (the IETF chair may not be the right person this  
time) should call them and explain that this is not the way to win  
friends and impress people.

Gruesse, Carsten

PS: kill-filing messages CCed to campaigns@ietf.org might help a bit.   
I don't know if the procedures allow to do this at the mailing list  
level.