From: Noel Chiappa [mailto:jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > From: "HUANG, ZHIHUI (JERRY), ATTLABS" <jhuang1@xxxxxxx> > > We shouldn't assume that FSF will not learn from feedbacks > >... >- it continued to call for sending email to ietf@xxxxxxxxx Point taken. But still, FSF and RMS may hold philosophically rigid positions, they surely can't turn a deaf ear to proposals to help them get their reasoned position heard, which is to say "this and like future email campaigns do nothing to IETF community's receptiveness to FSF's advocated position, a well thought-out note from the FSF would suffice." > > Isn't that the right price to pay for an open forum? > >You will note that I explicitly did not, in my suggested change to the LC, say >"close the IETF list to non-subscriber posts". However, that's a long way from >hanging out a "Kick Me" sign, which is what the current LC text ('send >comments to ietf@xxxxxxxx') effectively amounts to, for those who don't >carefully read it, and notice that it's directed to 'the IETF community'. As someone else pointed out earlier, asking only "the IETF community" to respond to LC and even explicitly state that "one should only respond (to LC) if he's subscribed to foo and bar IETF mailing list" will probably not deter people from 'drive-by' subscribing and posting of knee-jerk comments. So it doesn't really solve the problem. Even IETF participants can and do get their posting 'right' suspended for various reasons so the problem is not strictly from 'outside people'. > > If you know the secret handshake > >That's rather unfair. But that's what will amount to if (1) IETF announces that comments to LC be posted to a new mailing list; and (2) only the regulars know that "the real place to be heard is at ietf@xxxxxxxx"; and (3) no regulars would take the risk to subscribe to the new mailing list. So no comment on the new mailing list would effectively be heard. >[The] IETF is hardly a secret society which is picky about new blood This is certainly not what my post was supposed to imply. > > Noel Jerry Huang _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf