Re: Please reject the patent-encumbered proposed standard for TLS authorization

MBR <mbr@arlsoft.com> Wed, 11 February 2009 23:06 UTC

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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:06:01 -0500
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Dear Noel,

It's unfortunate, but I know of no way to tell the difference between an 
email address that's the main point of contact for an organization and 
an email address that distributes to a huge mailing list.  I sent email 
to ietf@ietf.org, naively assuming that the Internet Engineering Task 
Force was established enough to have an office somewhere with a 
secretary who read the emails and forwarded those of interest to the 
appropriate people.

Had I known ietf@ietf.org was an email list, I wouldn't have emailed the 
list.  However, having inadvertently done so, I hope I won't be accused 
of repeat mailbombing for sending this explanation in response to your 
accusation.

If you'd like to suggest a way I can tell whether an email address 
represents a single individual or an email list, I'm all ears.

    Mark Rosenthal

Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Thank you for being part of a crowd of hundreds of people who have mailbombed
> the mailboxes of thousands of IETF 'members' (since we don't have any formal
> membership, just an email list). As a result, we all have such positive
> feeling about the FSF.
>
> 	Noel
>
>

Please reject the patent-encumbered proposed stan… MBR
Re: Please reject the patent-encumbered proposed … MBR
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