Agreed. I use the draft-*.all mailing lists to do what their description says they do - copy the authors, working group chairs, and relevant ADs on something specific to the draft. If I mean it to be seen by the working group, I copy the working group. > On Feb 9, 2015, at 11:00 AM, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi, > > I see that the tracker has started using email aliases of the > form draft-ietf-WG-*.all@xxxxxxxx to report on state changes, > and that these aliases now apparently include the WG as well > as the interested parties. > > This is highly obnoxious. One problem is that for most recipients > the messages are pure noise (and any follow-up messages whose CC > list isn't manually pruned are additional noise). Another problem > is that they are in effect BCC'ed to the WG, so existing filters > don't catch these messages. A consequent problem of that is that > many people are likely to do what I'm about to do: figure out how > to spam filter all this noise, thereby risking to miss any such messages > that actually matter. > > Please please please remove the WG lists from these aliases. > If something really needs to be brought to the WG's attention, > there are people who know they should do that. > > Regards > Brian Carpenter > >
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