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Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announcement list

Eliot Lear <lear@lear.ch> Sun, 26 September 2021 08:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announcement list
From: Eliot Lear <lear@lear.ch>
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Cc: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>, IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, Working Chairs <wgchairs@ietf.org>, IETF <ietf@ietf.org>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:13:04 +0200
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> I have two different sources of mixed feelings about this.
> 
> First, If we create an "important" list, will more people unsubscribe from the "announce" list? Is that the desired effect? If we do this experiment, will we monitor the "announce" list?

I vaguely recall -announce being created for important announcements. And now it seems that we have cluttered that list. A better approach would be to unclutter it.

Also, I don’t know about the rest of you, but there are so many IETF lists that I just dump them all into one folder, so this won’t make any difference to me, aside from mildly annoying duplicates that my UA really should do a better job at handling.

Eliot

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