In message <433809FE.4070903@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dave Crocker writes: >> Without getting into the discussion of whether an email every 5 days is a >> DOS I would certainly like to state for the record that without question the >> pettiness has taken far more thought than the productivity, and so if Dean's >> posts are a DOS then the posts trying to protect us from them have been an >> atom bomb. > > >That's the reason the process model delegates handling such problems to >specific individuals, rather than having all of us, together, participate in >the review and assessment. Actually, 3683 specifically requires community discussion of motions to block someone's posting rights. It is, in so many words, done by a Last Call. --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf