Spencer,
This practice was started because the main IETF list got flooded with
messages like "where is the nearest Apple store?" once we were onsite
and this annoyed the folks who weren't actually at the meeting. Having
it (opt-in) on a per-meeting basis makes sense to me, if we create the
list in advance of the meeting (pre-registration), I guess we'd have
to figure out some subscription mechanims (like "you will be
auto-subscribed once you post your first message to ietf-xx" or
something like that.) I can see a lot of value in having a list
created well in advance to answer questions such as visa and
transportation.
Ole
Ole J. Jacobsen
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Cisco Systems
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On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Spencer Dawkins wrote:
I'm not sure I understand what problem we're solving by setting up IETF
meeting-specific mailing lists each time. It's not like most of the attendees
at IETF 77 weren't at at least one meeting in the previous year, and if there
is a population on earth that we should expect to be able to unsubscribe from
mailing lists when they aren't relevant to us, it's IETF attendees. Maybe an
ietf-meeting-attendees mailing list, and be done with it?
Spencer
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