Is this why there has been a slow down in the return of messages? My messages used to come back in a minute, now it is more like an hour, and I have seen others comment on the lists to that effect. (I have not seen, or seen any references to, any TMDA challenges). Tom Petch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexa Morris" <amorris@xxxxxxxx> To: <ietf-announce@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:18 PM Subject: TMDA on Mailing Lists > At the request of the WG Chairs, as well as many other members of the IETF > community, we we will be implementing TDMA in front of all ietf.org mailing > lists. We plan to put this in place tomorrow, Tuesday May 6th, at > approximately 17:00 GMT / 1pm ET. > > The setup will use one common whitelist for all the lists. The whitelist > will be pre-seeded with all the current regular subscribers to any of the > mailing lists on ietf.org. People who aren't subscribed to any list will be > required to confirm their first posting. In order to both keep the size of > the whitelist reasonable, and to regularly clean out entries for robots, we > plan to let non-subscriber entries on the whitelist time out after 6 months, > which will mean that non-subscribers will need to acknowledge a posting > every 6 months or so. > > Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns. > > Regards, > Alexa > > ----------- > Alexa Morris / Executive Director / IETF > 48377 Fremont Blvd., Suite 117, Fremont, CA 94538 > Phone: +1.510.492.4089 / Fax: +1.510.492.4001 > Email: amorris@xxxxxxxx > > Managed by Association Management Solutions (AMS) > Forum Management, Meeting and Event Planning > www.amsl.com <http://www.amsl.com/> > > > _______________________________________________ > IETF-Announce mailing list > IETF-Announce@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce _______________________________________________ IETF mailing list IETF@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf