--On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 04:56 +0000 Barry Leiba
<barryleiba(_at_)computer(_dot_)org> wrote:
...
We've seen quite a few non-WG mailing lists announced, where
the title of the list was all we got, and we'd have no idea
whatsoever if we wanted to subscribe to it. Please, when we
send out announcements, let's include enough of a description
-- even two or three paragraphs, if that's what it takes -- so
that we can understand what's meant to be discussed, and so
that we can know whether we want to subscribe.
Agreed. I certainly wasn't trying to suggest that
zero-information announcements were a good thing, only that we
shouldn't try to prohibit them if an AD believed that was the
right thing to do.
The announcements for the obscurity-interest and paws lists are
examples of particularly good ones. This one and the one for
"weirds" are particularly lacking.
Especially since it is now apparent that the relevant
information was readily available in both cases: See Jari's note
for this one; in the case of "weirds", three documents are now
in the I-D directory and there is apparently a plan to ask for a
BOF in Quebec.
john
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