At 09:29 AM 11/19/2001 +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >Andy, > >I don't see how this will help. The nonsense messages will still come, >from the usual sources, often copied to both lists, which will only >increase the level of annoyance.
IETF Last Call is a critical part of the Standards Process. It's our last chance to do a cross-domain sanity check on new technology, and give this input to the IESG, before they decide to approve a standard or not. These critical emails comprise less than 1 percent of the traffic on the IETF list. (My unscientific survey says...) I wouldn't characterize the other 99% as pure noise, maybe just 95%. I know of several longtime IETFers who ignore this list because of S/N ratio is so bad. If there was a [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, more people might make Last Call comments. People who post off-topic messages will be shouted off the list and if they keep doing it, they will be blocked from posting. Andy >[Splitting the -announce list doesn't have this disadvantage.] > > Brian > >Andy Bierman wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I would like the IESG to consider splitting this list into 2 lists. >> One list for discussion of Last Call issues and another for >> everything else (including minor stuff like splitting the >> IETF-Announce or IETF lists :-) >> >> thanks, >> Andy
