Hi Paul,
At 04:31 PM 10-10-2023, Paul Wouters wrote:
This bot is now posting as much as 13 entries on this 18 entries
list (but seems to give itself an entitlement not to be listed)
I'm also not sure what the original reasoning behind this bot was. I
hope it wasn't any name or shame calling that was based number of
emails instead of based on content of emails.
Is there anyone who still believes these emails serve a legitimate
purpose, and if so could you explain to me what it is?
Or lacking that, can we tell the poster to retire this bot?
I did not understand where the "13 entries on this 18 entries list"
came from when I first read your email. I read a message which was
posted a day or more after the above and found the explanation.
The messages archived by the IETF are not the same as the messages
received by mailing list subscribers (please see From header
field). I gather that the intent of the person who wrote the script
was to publicize the email addresses of the authors of the messages.
One of the questions which you asked is whether the emails serve a
legitimate purpose. My answer would be no because of the way in
which the question is worded.
My response to the second question is that it would entail writing an
Internet-Draft.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
