Noel wrote:
Rather than adopt indirect measures (such as requiring people to be
registered users of a list), I would go straight to the heart of the
matter, and adopt a formal policy that a mass email campaign should
count _against_ the position taken by that campaign, precisely to
dis-incentivize such campaigns.
A formal policy would require some clear definition of what a "mass email
campaign" is. How would/could we draw a line and define that term?
Would 100 people sending more or less the same text to a list in less than
24 hours constitute a mass email campaign? I would say 'yes'.
What about 50 people over 2 days? Maybe still 'yes'.
How about 20 people over a week, or 10 people recited the same cut and
pasted text during a longer last-call timeframe?
I am not trying to pour cold water on your idea here, but rather I am
wondering how something like this could be formalized, versus handled as an
exceptional case when and if it occurs.
Regards,
Ed J.
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Subject: Re: how to contact the IETF
> From: Andrew Sullivan <ajs(_at_)shinkuro(_dot_)com>
> This means that those "driving by" have to be tolerated, I think.
Ah, no.
Because if organizing an email campaign works for the FSF, next thing you
know, BigCorp X will be telling everyone who works for it 'we want standard
Q
approved, please send email to the IETF list about that'. If we allow
ourselves to be influenced by a mass email campaign, all we are doing is
virtually guaranteeing that we will get more. So I think we have an active
interest is responding _negatively_ to such campaigns.
Rather than adopt indirect measures (such as requiring people to be
registered
users of a list), I would go straight to the heart of the matter, and adopt
a
formal policy that a mass email campaign should count _against_ the position
taken by that campaign, precisely to dis-incentivize such campaigns.
Noel
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