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Re: meta-list (was Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: CACAO)

Melinda Shore <melinda.shore@gmail.com> Thu, 13 September 2018 03:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: meta-list (was Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: CACAO)
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On 9/12/18 7:23 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> It might be worth asking whether everyone who might care about the
> IETF really needs to know what every @ietf.org mailing list is for.
> If you don't know whether something is worth following, and there's no
> history in the archive, what are the chances that learning about it
> later is going to be fatal for your ability to say something useful
> about the work?

I think it really depends on what the point of announcing
the mailing list is.  If it's to hook up people who are
interested in working on/reading about/taking shots at
some prospective piece of work it doesn't seem to me to
be too much to ask to include a brief description in the
announcement.

I'll add that I do feel rather strongly about IETF work
being hosted on IETF assets, but the point at which something
becomes "IETF work" is admittedly rather fuzzy.

Melinda

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