Re: Proposal: an "important-news" IETF announcement list

[Eliot Lear <lear@xxxxxxx>]

“All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection”

— Butler Lampson

“All problems can be solved with an additional mailing list.” 

— The IESG

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I have two different sources of mixed feelings about this.

First, If we create an "important" list, will more people unsubscribe from the "announce" list? Is that the desired effect? If we do this experiment, will we monitor the "announce" list?

I vaguely recall -announce being created for important announcements. And now it seems that we have cluttered that list. A better approach would be to unclutter it.

Also, I don’t know about the rest of you, but there are so many IETF lists that I just dump them all into one folder, so this won’t make any difference to me, aside from mildly annoying duplicates that my UA really should do a better job at handling.

Eliot