I didn't say reading _all_ IETF mail. But 'don't miss stuff' is a maxim. And filters can be blinders. Lloyd Wood http://about.me/lloydwood ________________________________________ From: Thomas Narten [narten@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 28 February 2014 12:54 To: Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng) Cc: chaitanyabd@xxxxxxxxx; ted.lemon@xxxxxxxxxxx; ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Clarifying IETF process [Was: A private club] > For an Area Director and IESG member, reading IETF mail, not > discarding it unread, is one of the responsibilities of the role. This is a blanket statement that I cannot support. IESG members (as well as IETFers in general) need to be smart about using their limited cycles. They do not have cycles to read every piece of email and read every document that they are "responsible" for. Reading every piece of IETF email definitely is not prioritizing resources properly. Indeed, it is not uncommon to see threads that exhibit properties often associated with DOS attacks. Thomas