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

Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> Wed, 29 September 2021 23:40 UTC

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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 09:40:31 +1000
From: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
To: IETF Executive Director <exec-director@ietf.org>, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announcement list
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On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, at 09:17, Jay Daley wrote:
> No matter what we do, we cannot change the inherent level of interest 
> that people have in particular categories of messages.  

What Jay said.

I subscribe to these lists, but deliberately ignore all traffic from them unless some other event causes me to search for a message.  I might not immediately mark announcements as read and file them away to be ignored if a more targeted list existed.  (https://xkcd.com/1205/ says that if I can spend a few minutes setting up an ignore rule and save 30s per day deleting/ignoring emails, it's a BIG win.)

Indeed, I would almost look for a separate list for each of the 10 categories Lars identified on that basis.  Of course, subscribing to multiple lists in mailman is a huge pain, but we shouldn't let something that might easily be fixed decide what is right.