--On Tuesday, April 21, 2015 16:44 +0200 Harald Alvestrand
<harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've filed a number of drafts where I didn't know at filing
> time what addresses my co-authors wanted to have on the draft
> (deadlines again).
>
> That said, it seems that a button called "BLANK THIS DRAFT"
> which was available to co-authors and filed a -01 with "THIS
> SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK" as its only content (after
> approval) might adequately solve the problem without the need
> to modify our main workflows...
Unfortunately, to the extent to which this is a major problem (I
can imagine cases were it would be as well as others in which
administering a thorough beating to the offenders would be a
better practice and would not require new tools), the bogus
author listing would still be present in the archives, would
produce the draft on searches by author names, etc. Of course,
giving [co-]authors actual take-down capability would interact
with a different recent conversation and would not prevent the
offender from immediately posting a new draft under a different
name but with equally bogus authorship.
john