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

Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com> Sun, 26 September 2021 15:24 UTC

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From: Lucas Pardue <lucaspardue.24.7@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 16:24:09 +0100
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Subject: Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announcement list
To: David Noveck <davenoveck@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 3:33 PM David Noveck <davenoveck@gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree as well but it is hard to get agreement about what, specifically,
> is clutter and what is not.  That can easily turn into a non-terminating
> discussion.
>
> In order to provide the desirable uncluttering, without getting into a
> discussion about what people consider clutter, I propose that we extend
> Lars's proposal and put each of the ten classes of items into its own list
> so that we have ietf-announce-{news, charters, closures, new-lists,
> new-rfcs, telechats, doc-actions, conflict-reviews, last-calls,
> interim-meetings} allowing people to subscribe what they want to see
> without getting what *they *consider clutter.
>

If that would happen, then I wouldn't subscribe to them simply because the
UX is terrible and the act of subscribing/unsubscribing is entirely
tedious. Seriously, do I need to confirm the same email address *every*
time I want to subscribe.

Cheers,
Lucas