On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:19:57AM -0500, Melinda Shore wrote: > Well, no, I don't agree with that last bit, in the > sense that I don't think "replied on the mailing list" > really means the same thing as "participated." I think we're in agreement. All I'm suggesting is that there's no _a priori_ way of knowing whether someone is participating, except by looking at the lists. Therefore, we can't dismiss postings from people we don't know on the grounds we don't know them. This means that those "driving by" have to be tolerated, I think. A -- Andrew Sullivan ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxx Shinkuro, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf