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Re: IESG Statement on surprised authors

2015-06-02 10:06:14

On 5/31/15 3:11 PM, "Ted Lemon" <Ted(_dot_)Lemon(_at_)nominum(_dot_)com> wrote:

On May 31, 2015, at 1:04 PM, John Levine <johnl(_at_)taugh(_dot_)com> wrote:
We do automatically notify authors when new drafts are posted, which
should usually alert surprised authors to the problem.

At this point the damage is already done: the surprised author now has to
publicly accuse the other author(s) of surprising them, which is really
burdensome and which said surprise author kit find completely unpalatable
for any number of reasons. This is not a solution.

I agree with Ted on this. - Larry