On Saturday, November 09, 2002 12:37 PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@RESEARCH.ATT.COM> allegedly wrote: > 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. Personally I wouldn't consider a few messages, giving me clues about what you are doing with/to a document, to be noise or disrupting. Once a day is acceptable to me, but don't promote the idea because you think WG participants wouldn't like several messages a day. swb