I was a bit surprised to notice that https://www.ietf.org/how/lists/nonwglist-guidelines/ doesn't say anything about whether non-WG lists should or should not be moderated. Regards Brian Carpenter On 09-Oct-19 04:14, Rob Sayre wrote: > Hi all, > > I sent what I thought was an on-topic message to add@xxxxxxxx <mailto:add@xxxxxxxx>. > > It seems to have been rejected because the AD wants to issue some sort of PR message. > > This action was not difficult to anticipate, so I also CCed www-archive@xxxxxx <mailto:www-archive@xxxxxx>. > > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2019Oct/0000.html > > thanks, > Rob > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: <add-owner@xxxxxxxx <mailto:add-owner@xxxxxxxx>> > Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 10:03 PM > Subject: Request to mailing list Add rejected > To: <sayrer@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:sayrer@xxxxxxxxx>> > > > Your request to the Add mailing list > > Posting of your message titled "IETF 106 BoF: ABCD" > > has been rejected by the list moderator. The moderator gave the > following reason for rejecting your request: > > "This is a proposal the IESG is floating, and I (Barry) put it in the > BoF wiki for now. I will be posting a message about it to the ADD > list later today, so I'd rather hold your message until after that. > Please feel free to respond to my message when it comes out." > > Any questions or comments should be directed to the list administrator > at: > > add-owner@xxxxxxxx <mailto:add-owner@xxxxxxxx>