From: Noel Chiappa [mailto:jnc(_at_)mercury(_dot_)lcs(_dot_)mit(_dot_)edu]
> From: "HUANG, ZHIHUI (JERRY), ATTLABS" <jhuang1(_at_)att(_dot_)com>
> We shouldn't assume that FSF will not learn from feedbacks
...
- it continued to call for sending email to ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org(_dot_)
Point taken. But still, FSF and RMS may hold philosophically rigid
positions, they surely can't turn a deaf ear to proposals to help them
get their reasoned position heard, which is to say "this and like future
email campaigns do nothing to IETF community's receptiveness to FSF's
advocated position, a well thought-out note from the FSF would suffice."
> Isn't that the right price to pay for an open forum?
You will note that I explicitly did not, in my suggested change to the
LC, say
"close the IETF list to non-subscriber posts". However, that's a long
way from
hanging out a "Kick Me" sign, which is what the current LC text ('send
comments to ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org') effectively amounts to, for those who
don't
carefully read it, and notice that it's directed to 'the IETF
community'.
As someone else pointed out earlier, asking only "the IETF community" to
respond to LC and even explicitly state that "one should only respond
(to LC) if he's subscribed to foo and bar IETF mailing list" will
probably not deter people from 'drive-by' subscribing and posting of
knee-jerk comments. So it doesn't really solve the problem. Even IETF
participants can and do get their posting 'right' suspended for various
reasons so the problem is not strictly from 'outside people'.
> If you know the secret handshake
That's rather unfair.
But that's what will amount to if (1) IETF announces that comments to LC
be posted to a new mailing list; and (2) only the regulars know that
"the real place to be heard is at ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org"; and (3) no regulars
would take the risk to subscribe to the new mailing list. So no comment
on the new mailing list would effectively be heard.
[The] IETF is hardly a secret society which is picky about new blood
This is certainly not what my post was supposed to imply.
Noel
Jerry Huang
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