Sounds like a good idea ... I'd add one more question to the list below ... How would these attachments appear in the archive? Are they already linked objects, must be I guess, would that change? On Thu, 15 Mar 2012, Robert Raszuk wrote: > Hello Russ, > > IMHO this is a great idea and I fully support it's deployment asap. It is well > overdue one too not only in IETF but in many other mailing lists in the > community. > > -- > > The only few maybe too detailed at this point questions: > > - what would be (if not infinity) the expiration data of such attachment > repository ? > > - what would be the automated interface to periodically sync such repository > on a per WG group to a local space ? > > - would email contain full link or just a url short cut ? > > - would the document as attachments be google indexed and fully searchable ? > > - what attachment formats would be supported ? > > Regards, > R. > > > Some suggestions have been made about the IETF mail lists. > > There is a way for mailman to strip attachments and put them > > in a place for downloading with a web browser. This would be > > a significant change to current practice, so the community > > needs to consider this potential policy change. > > > > What do you think? > > > > Russ >