> I don't care whether Bush's decisions can be adequately explained by > stupidity. The decisions shouldn't be made by hand in the first place. > The only acceptable ways to process a message to a standardization > mailing list are > > (1) to immediately pass it through unchanged to the subscribers or > (2) to immediately bounce it. > > The decision between #1 and #2 must be made by objective standards. The > bounces must clearly and thoroughly explain the standards. The standards > must allow the sender to straightforwardly arrange for #1. I disagree that there is no room for human beings filtering out spam. Your approach means that an IETF participant can't cross-post messages to mailing lists to which s/he is not subscribed, which I think would make inter-WG coordination much more difficult when we need to make it easier. Erik