[Tools-discuss] Confirm on I-D submission (was Re: postconfirm)

This reminded me of a complaint I've had for a while:

When I use the Datatracker to submit an I-D, I have to go through the "open
email, click a link" dance, click a button" dance even though I am logged
in to the Datatracker.  Is it not possible to just match the logged-in user
ID with the author email addresses and proceed directly to posting?

--Richard

On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 9:05 PM Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> For the escape-workshop-pc mailing list, we had a number of submissions
> from non-IETF people get stuck at the confirmation stage, because people
> who were not familiar with postman norms didn't realise they had to respond
> to the confirm message.
>
> In particular, the Subject of the e-mail is "Confirm: ...", and the most
> prominent line is "Confirmation of list posting -- confirmation ID: ..." --
> which can be read to say that THIS e-mail is confirming that posting has
> already occurred.
>
> Would it be possible to rewrite the confirmation message to make it more
> clear to busy readers that they need to act on the message?
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
>
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