I believe in the end-to-end principle, rather than the "network knows best" principle. If someone is interested in a topic, they can subscribe to the topic. If they are interested in everything, they can subscribe to everything. If that are not interested in something, they can chose to not subscribe to the topic. Why force someone to listen to the whole messaging/applications/rai/weather/snmp/smtp/ldap/foobar discussion if all they are interested in is the limited topic of notifications? More especially so since one CAN chose to get everything? Most especially so since one MAY search the entire archives rather easily? -----Original Message----- From: lemonade-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:lemonade-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Keith Moore Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:36 PM To: Burger, Eric Cc: lemonade@xxxxxxxx; ietf-imapext@xxxxxxx; ietf-smtp@xxxxxxx; ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: [lemonade] Re: Announcement: Notifications List Burger, Eric wrote: > In Vancouver in the lemonade work group meeting a number of people > expressed interest in the creation of a list dedicated to the discussion > of user notification technology. > > This list is for discussions relating to the requirements, definition, > and directions for message notifications. > > While many requirements are driven by lemonade, there is a broader > community with interest and expertise that we hope will contribute to > the discussion here. > > Please keep discussions that relate to lemonade, smtp, simple, etc. on > their respective lists. Please do not impose this constraint. There is already far too much tendency for narrowly-focused groups to work in isolation and to ignore useful input from parties whose interests are peripheral to the group but affected by the group's output. This in turn causes groups to get strong pushback at Last Call which could have been avoided had the group not isolated itself. > Please keep cross-posting to a minimum. Cross-posting to a number of > lists will put your message into the spam bucket and will delay or deny > your message being posted. If the list manager is going to impose restrictions such as this, it would be better if such discussion happened elsewhere than on this list. Keith _______________________________________________ lemonade mailing list lemonade@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lemonade _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf