On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Randall Gellens wrote: > Ever since, I've wondered if these notices were set up by someone who is a lawyer and does understand the situation, or if they were set up by someone who saw others do it, or heard that this sort of thing was needed. The latter seems likely to me as well, but the IETF community is unlikely to convince such people to change their minds. It's certain to be far easier, in this case, to gently encourage participants to use a different email address for their IETF participation. (I do that already -- not because of inappropriate footers, but because Exchange and Outlook are mind-bogglingly poor tools for discussion lists.) -- J.D. Falk the leading purveyor of industry counter-rhetoric solutions _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf