On Sat, 27 Oct 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Noel Chiappa) writes: > getting involved -- in particular, on this list. Are you saying that > people who take the time to post in this forum will be ignored merely > because what they say is not what you want to hear? Absolutely, if they don't bother to stick around and read the subsequent discussion. Merely spaming this list does provide validity to the poster's point of view. Hanging around and participating and having the rest of the community observe the poster's qualifications first hand as they re-inforce their points is how they earn respect in this organization. Repeated posts of what were essentially copies of boilerplate text by multiple people doesn't engender credibility. An frankly, cut and paste political campaigns beg to be ignored. We are not politicians and have no need to measure the support of ideas by the weight of mail received. David Morris _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf