Re: Proposed Photography Policy - Transparency and Leadership

[Ted Lemon <mellon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 6, 2018, at 11:13 AM, John Levine <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I would hope that with or without the new policy, if I were to tell
someone "don't take my picture" and it took it anyway, the
ombudsentity would take an interesst if asked.

BTW, John, apologies for mentioning this on the IETF mailing list, but when you see what I'm mentioning, you'll understand why.  When I reply to a message to you that you send me, I get the following bounce:

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The response from the remote server was:

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This is inappropriate.   Please fix it, or else please stop engaging with me in IETF discussions.  I don't blame you for finding what I say "incoherent," because I definitely am not as good at expressing myself clearly as I would like to be.  But this is not an appropriate way to address your feelings about what I say.   The appropriate way is to set up a filter that filters out messages that are from me, so that you don't have to read them and aren't tempted to respond to them.  A more appropriate way to deal with it is to accept that nobody communicates perfectly (including you) and we should all cut each other a bit of slack.