+100 Every announcement to the IETF announce list that current contains only the acronym for an IETF Working Group is fundamentally defective. This needs to be fixed so that every such message contains an occurrence of the expansion of the acronym. Thanks, Donald ============================= Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA d3e3e3@xxxxxxxxx On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Randy Bush <randy@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> A new IETF non-working group email list has been created. >> >> List address: MPVDAPI@xxxxxxxx >> Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/mpvdapi/ >> To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/MPVDAPI >> >> Purpose: >> >> MPVD API design is very important for MPVD concept of MIF working >> group, MIF working group decide to write MPVD API document by build a >> design team, this mailing list is try to help the design team to >> discuss the main issues and write the document. >> >> -The IETF Area to which the list belongs >> -The URL or other instructions for subscribing to the listInternet Area >> >> For additional information, please contact the list administrators. > > perhaps expanding some acronyms would be helpful for the reader who is > not deeply involved in multi-person venereal diseases. > > < to decode > > > as mailing list announcements are posted to a broad list, they should > not assume only the in-crowd will be reading them. > > randy >