Doug re-posts and cross-posts yet another private email and writes: [..] > What you are refering to as netiquette is an unspoken rule of > USENET not a mailing list as far as I know, so I don't believe it applies > here. I respectfully suggest you are mistaken. (On a number of points, and this one in particular.) [..] > Hopefully you won't be the next person to go in my filter > Grenville Either way is fine with me :) [..] > P.S. If you doubt the my claim that it was the entire message either time I > can > always post them as file attachments for the whole group to see. No need. I just wasn't sure if you'd posted the entire message because, based on what you re-posted, there didn't seem to be enough to get all worked up about. Still doesn't, but you're free to assume all you want about how things are supposed to work in the IETF. You've clearly been around this organization and our mailing lists for a long time. cheers, gja -- Grenville Armitage http://caia.swin.edu.au