Dear Noel,
It's unfortunate, but I know of no way to tell the difference between an
email address that's the main point of contact for an organization and
an email address that distributes to a huge mailing list. I sent email
to ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org, naively assuming that the Internet Engineering Task
Force was established enough to have an office somewhere with a
secretary who read the emails and forwarded those of interest to the
appropriate people.
Had I known ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org was an email list, I wouldn't have emailed the
list. However, having inadvertently done so, I hope I won't be accused
of repeat mailbombing for sending this explanation in response to your
accusation.
If you'd like to suggest a way I can tell whether an email address
represents a single individual or an email list, I'm all ears.
Mark Rosenthal
Noel Chiappa wrote:
Thank you for being part of a crowd of hundreds of people who have mailbombed
the mailboxes of thousands of IETF 'members' (since we don't have any formal
membership, just an email list). As a result, we all have such positive
feeling about the FSF.
Noel
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