Off by default, with the per-user option of turning reminders on. As a result I suspect <5% of users will want a reminder. The spare CPU cycles on the 1st of every month can be used to mine bitcoins for the purchase of IETF meeting break cookies with greater quantities of chocolate chips. Jason On 11/2/13, 8:19 PM, "Chris Griffiths" <cgriffiths@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Hello, > >The IAOC would like to solicit feedback from the community to see if >there are any concerns with having the Secretariat turn off the monthly >mailing list password reminders for the IETF mailing lists going forward. > Due to an ever increasing community size as well as new mailing lists >being added to the mailman servers over time, we see a large amount of >mail at the beginning of every month that is causing some delays to email >delivery during this time period in order to send out mass email >subscription and password reminders to the community. Since Mailman has >the ability to do on-demand requests for password reset and subscription >information for each mailing list, there is an alternative method to the >current bulk sending of subscription information that the community can >use. > >We are planning to raise this at the Admin plenary on Wednesday at IETF >88 in Vancouver, but we would like to get your feedback on this issue. > >Thank you > >Chris Griffiths >IAOC Chair