I agree there is no way to know "a priori" about the intentions of a person who sends an e-mail to an IETF list. That being said, I do think it would be good to invest in methods that increase the probability that people who post might actually participate over a longer time (vs. just "driving-by"). Hence, I find myself thinking kindly towards suggestions that perhaps we should require people to subscribe to the lists they wish to send messages to. Regards, Ed Juskevicius -----Original Message----- From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan Sent: February 10, 2009 11:03 AM To: ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: how to contact the IETF 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 _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf