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

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 01 October 2021 15:31 UTC

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From: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>
To: tom petch <daedulus@btconnect.com>, IETF <ietf@ietf.org>, Working Chairs <wgchairs@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announcement list
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tom petch <daedulus@btconnect.com> wrote:
    > I suggested earlier that while Last Call should each have a separate e-mail
    > on some list, yet a weekly summary would cut by a factor of three the traffic
    > on whatever is the new list. I did not mean digest! rather a customised
    > e-mail taking the subject line of each Last Call announcement and putting it
    > on a separate line in the body

Hmm. But, can we use digest format?  Many of us have digest burst actions in
our MUAs, which means that we could do the burst, and then followup properly.
(Yes, many people born after 1985 won't know about that)

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
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