In message <197230670977.20021106153345@tribalwise.com>, Dave Crocker writes: > >Mark> Or, just define a generic mechanism where arbitrary folk can sign up >Mark> to "watch" a particular document. > >Robert's excellent suggestion is simpler for the folks running the service >and it is entirely compatible with existing practise. (When a working group >document is issued, the working group is copied on the notice.) > My concern here is the noise factor. I sometimes make several updates a day to a single document, often because I did something like adding comments without changing the substate -- I then have to go back and update the record again. I suspect a coarse-grained notification -- say, once per day -- will solve that problem. I have no problem with the concept of automatic notification. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book)