Re: [EAI] [IETF] Content Issues [

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> > The effect of this is to essentially to create a EAI-capable subset of any
> > discussion. That breaks accontability, as John notes. But perhaps more
> > important is the fact that it also breaks the entire open model.

> Well, the message would go to the mailing list archive, which should be
> enough for theoretical accountability and openness.

You're ignoring second order effects - the fact that only a subset of
subscribers will see such messages and thus have no chance to respond is both
intrinscly nontransparent as well as inimical to the accountability provided by
full and robust debate.

As for archives, unless you can produce evidence that a significant fraction of
people actually regularly review the archives to check for messages they might
have missed, I view them as irrelevant to the matter at hand.

> But of course, a
> mailing list where contributions from some set of participants to some
> other set of participants regularly disappear in a black hole don't make
> much sense.

It's a lot more fundamental than that. See above.

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