On 23-jun-04, at 3:54, Ed Gerck wrote:
Of course, I still believe that insisting in only using the email for communications and screaming "bloody murder" when it does not work for some reason, at some time, is very un-Internet. If you want only a single path, you have to live with the resulting single point of failure. Allowing web-based messages in addition to email is a simple and cost-effective way to provide redundancy and reduce the importance of problems such as reported by Anderson.
The IETF has used email as its primary method of conducting its business for almost 20 years. The IETF is also in charge of all the relevant standards. So if email doesn't work, I think the IETF should fix it rather than come up with ad-hoc additional communication mechanisms that have more than enough problems of their own.
Creating such a new channel only gives people with unreasonable email habits (such as rejecting replies to list messages without saying why) positive feedback so email becomes even less reliable.
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