[Tools-discuss] Mockup of mailing list subscription interface

[Jay Daley <[e-mail]>]

Hi

As previously advised, Robert and I are working on a series of design workshops [1] , one of which we hope to plan around mail management and user interfaces.  As part of the preparation for that we have worked on a detailed mockup of a mail subscription interface for Datatracker:

	https://www.ietf.org/media/documents/Mail_Subscription_Mockup_2021-10-12.pdf

This interface is intended to solve a number of issues:

a) (primary issue) the time/effort required to manage multiple mailing list subscriptions and the various ways people do that using multiple email addresses
b) the ongoing issue of one notification list to rule them or multiple smaller lists, which is heavily influenced by a) above
c) the inadequacy of the default listing of mailing lists and the subsequent effect on discoverability, compounded by some lists being hosted under other domains
d) finding out easily if a list is barely used, wildly high volume, or something in between
e) subscribing to read-only lists


Comments most welcome now or at tomorrow’s meeting, with the main discussion expected to be at the planned workshop.

Jay


[1]  https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tools-discuss/WuhwUDI56QkB6EznPMjvPBus8n4/

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Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
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