On 9/26/21 10:32 AM, David Noveck wrote:
In order to provide the desirable uncluttering, without getting into a discussion about what people consider clutter, I propose that we extend Lars's proposal and put each of the ten classes of items into its own list so that we have ietf-announce-{news, charters, closures, new-lists, new-rfcs, telechats, doc-actions, conflict-reviews, last-calls, interim-meetings} allowing people to subscribe what they want to see without getting what they consider clutter.
"It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a mailing list, to
treat every new topic as if it required a separate mailing list."
At some point the number of topics/lists became so large that it's hard to make sure you're getting most of the content you want, while avoiding most of the content you don't want.
Over time, there also seems to be a tendency to add new content to each list, especially automatically generated content which is often low value information for most recipients. And this results in calls for even more lists, and/or to split existing lists.
Keith
