The IAOC sent out an RFP for review by the IETF community last June. The RFP
can be found here:
https://iaoc.ietf.org/documents/IMAP-Service-RFP-2014-06-16.pdf
We have received bids, and questions were sent to at least one of the bidders.
I expect an award to be made soon.
Russ
On Aug 29, 2014, at 6:03 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
The IETF should run an IMAPS server for it's lists. Preferably users should
be able to get accounts for the purpose of read/replied/... flag state
keeping, but if truly read-only, users could just fetch IETF list emails into
local stores.
Also: provide a subscription option that allows posting but does not deliver
any posts to the subscriber.
If spammers start gathering email addresses from this service, then require
an account and let only subscribers to at least one IETF list have that.
I know there exists an RFC about this. Let's just do it.
This will solve the some/many-posts-appear-as-spam problem for at least those
users who can get access to (e.g., firewall exemption) this service when they
need it.
Also, i find the archive views awful. I'd rather we have the traditional
mailman archive view plus something more akin to a read-only web forum for
those sad sad people who prefer web forum interfaces to mailing lists. For
the saddest users maybe also write-only web forum.
Only semi-facetiously yours,
Nico
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