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Re: Sergeant-at-Armss and New proposal/New SOW comment period

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Mon, 02 September 2019 00:03 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 2019 17:03:15 -0700
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Subject: Re: Sergeant-at-Armss and New proposal/New SOW comment period
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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On Sun, Sep 1, 2019 at 4:37 PM Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> wrote:

> > On the other hand, I, and I suspect others, don't really want to wade
> > through the IETF mailing list in order to follow this discussion.
>
> otoh, some of us do not want to subscribe to yet another mailing list
> for ietf administrivia.  but yes, it is a trade-off to fork or not to
> fork when a sub-subject is hot on some list.
>

Given the amount of heat that this topic seems to produce, I'm not sure I
would call it "administrivia"


do folk not have delete and delete-thread keys?
>

Of course, but I don't generally think that imposing the cost of thread
management on every reader is usually a good tradeoff when we have clearly
distinct subjects. After all, taken to its conclusion, one could argue we
don't need separate mailing lists at all.

-Ekr



> randy
>

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