Community Feedback: Turning off monthly IETF mailing list password reminder emails

[Chris Griffiths <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

The IAOC would like to solicit feedback from the community to see if there are any concerns with having the Secretariat turn off the monthly mailing list password reminders for the IETF mailing lists going forward.  Due to an ever increasing community size as well as new mailing lists being added to the mailman servers over time, we see a large amount of mail at the beginning of every month that is causing some delays to email delivery during this time period in order to send out mass email subscription and password reminders to the community.  Since Mailman has the ability to do on-demand requests for password reset and subscription information for each mailing list, there is an alternative method to the current bulk sending of subscription information that the community can use.

We are planning to raise this at the Admin plenary on Wednesday at IETF 88 in Vancouver, but we would like to get your feedback on this issue.  

Thank you

Chris Griffiths
IAOC Chair