> Keith, there are several barriers of entry for people who wish to work on
> Internet protocols. There are financial barriers, time barriers and most of
> all, educational barriers. We all have to learn how email lists work (some
> of us had to learn USENET), just as we all had to learn how to access the
> Internet. It is incumbent on the participant to move up the learning curve
> and follow the email list policy even if that includes extra effort. If
> that policy includes subscription, then you just have to go along with it,
> onerous or not. The Internet doesn't bend to individuals.
no disagreement about the general argument - we have to understand how
to use our technology. and from time to time we have to learn to use
new technologies.
but subscribe-before-post is not inherently a feature of mailing lists.
we have a choice about whether to impose that extra hump in the learning
curve. my argument is that a choice to do so, for the specific case of
IETF lists, is a poor one.
Keith
