> The ability of users to sign up from throwaway accounts doesn't seem to have > been a big problem in practice, but it does make it hard to claim that the > lists are free of submarine patent trolls. The problem is not hotmail, nor gmail, etc, I use gmail for email lists because it is convenient and free. The problem is people and their behavior, with or without hotmail, after somebody (no pun intended) wrote "Internet for dummies" and sniffing for ideas & patentable stuff became a practice to make a quick profit, many lists and other services got plagued with dummies and trolls. > Once again, there isn't necessarily anything to fix here, but a useful > privacy policy needs to work in our environment where depending on the > context a user can be entirely anonymous (download a web page), fairly well > verified (pay with a credit card), and a lot of points in between. You don't need to register to download drafts/email archives/rfcs ... IMHO problem is with people that may try to divert/tweak the process looking for a potential way of making a buck in the future, if you let them operate in obscurity by letting them being anonymous. -J _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf