Email has become so important for society and business that very few people will have even as much tolerance as Dean does for being (in his own mind, at the very least) unfairly blacklisted. Those of you who are angry at Dean for "flaming" in this case should consider how much more constructive it is for him to bring this matter up on the IETF list than to simply sue everyone who might have played a role in blocking his email. But frankly, I suspect it is inevitable that the courts in several countries will be called on to resolve these issues fairly soon. -- Nathaniel
On May 20, 2004, at 12:44 AM, Mark Smith wrote:
On Wed, 19 May 2004 23:42:01 -0400 (EDT) Dean Anderson <dean@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 18 May 2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
<snip - whole lot of legal stuff that I don't have time to read - I've got a few thousand RFCs to go ...>
Firstly, let me say that it is really sad that legalease, legal council and legal positions have appeared on an IETF mailing list to the extent we've seen. I've understood that the IETF was all about best technical solutions and positions, not best legal solutions and positions.
Dean, I'm in no position to implement this as a solution (nor have I spent time thinking about how hard or easy it would be to implement), however, presuming that @ietf.org doesn't implement MTA blocking via methods such as SORBS, and I don't think they do, would you be happy if all people who have official IETF positions (eg. area advisor, working group chair, etc) had @ietf.org email addresses, and used those for any IETF related correspondence ?
Regards, Mark.
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