On Saturday, November 09, 2002 12:37 PM -0500,
Steven M. Bellovin <smb(_at_)RESEARCH(_dot_)ATT(_dot_)COM> allegedly wrote:
In message <197230670977(_dot_)20021106153345(_at_)tribalwise(_dot_)com>,
Dave Crocker
writes:
Mark> Or, just define a generic mechanism where arbitrary folk can
sign up Mark> to "watch" a particular document.
Robert's excellent suggestion is simpler for the folks running the
service and it is entirely compatible with existing practise. (When
a working group document is issued, the working group is copied on
the notice.)
My concern here is the noise factor. I sometimes make several updates
a day to a single document, often because I did something like adding
comments without changing the substate -- I then have to go back and
update the record again. I suspect a coarse-grained notification --
say, once per day -- will solve that problem. I have no problem with
the concept of automatic notification.
Personally I wouldn't consider a few messages, giving me clues about
what you are doing with/to a document, to be noise or disrupting. Once
a day is acceptable to me, but don't promote the idea because you think
WG participants wouldn't like several messages a day.
swb