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

Henrik Levkowetz <henrik@levkowetz.com> Tue, 25 June 2019 13:48 UTC

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

On 2019-06-25 15:43, Richard Barnes wrote:
> 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?

Yes.  This is something we want to do, but it hasn't reached the top of
the priority list yet.


Best regards,

	Henrik

> 
> --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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