--On Wednesday, January 6, 2021 11:05 +1100 Mark Nottingham
<mnot@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 6 Jan 2021, at 10:57 am, John C Klensin <john@xxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
> ...
>> I suggest that we cross some very unfortunate boundary when
>> what appears on a mailing list is equivalent to "anyone who
>> does not agree with the reasoning and conclusions reached in
>> XYZ needed to speak up". In that regard, it makes no
>> difference whether "XYZ" is github, "our last interim meeting
>> in a timezone that was inconvenient for some readers", or
>> something else -- the effect is exclusionary and makes claims
>> of consensus far more dubious.
>
> I think the same could be said about decisions that are made
> on obscure mailing lists -- many developers refuse to
> subscribe to them now because of their awful usability
> problems.
I tend to agree. FWIW, note the relationships between that
observation about obscure mailing lists and my December 27
posting about "Fundamental changes in IETF discussions?".
john
