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Re: What's the alternative to "snarling"?

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 19 April 2021 16:46 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: What's the alternative to "snarling"?
Thread-Topic: What's the alternative to "snarling"?
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:45:59 +0000
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>    Old-timers snarl, at least in part, because they've been through all of 
    it before, and they would rather work on trying to improve potentially 
    promising ideas than defeating Bad Ideas.   Snarling is one version of 
    conservation of effort.

I really hesitated to say this, but in my experience, most of the snarlers are old men who have not made notable contributions to any draft in some time.

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