Re: Complaint to ADs regarding censorship of dissent

["D. J. Bernstein" <[e-mail]>]

Simon Josefsson writes:
> Are the subscriber e-mail addresses for IETF lists publicly available?

I agree that IETF management generally shouldn't be leaking information
about subscription addresses, and I agree that it's an error to conflate
the _subscription_ question with transparency regarding who's _posting_.

However, I don't think this matters for the specific case here. I had
already publicly noted in another context that I joined the TLS mailing
list in 1999.

The current sideshow about subscription addresses is much more of a
problem in how it leads casual readers to believe, falsely, that I was
posting the message from an address I hadn't registered. This deflects
from the (still unreleased) logs of how the address "got unsubscribed".

---D. J. Bernstein


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