On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > 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. I am in agreement that the mailing list mechanism should not be tampered with... it works, so don't break it. The addition of realtime facilities like irc could potentially augment the process, as long as the dialogs were archived for public consumption. > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > sleekfreak pirate broadcast http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/ _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf