On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Thomas Narten <nar...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> What the weekly stats really ought to tally up is the readers/postings > ratio, so that folk would get more direct feedback as to whether what they > are > posting is actually being read... > > My strong suspicion would be that there is strong negative correlation > between frequency of posts and actual readers of those posts... > > Also, I suspect that many people do not realize that a significant > chunk of IETF contributers are no longer subscribed to the ietf list > due to signal to noise ratio concerns... > > So why not move the signal? Put IETF Last Call mail on last-c...@ietf.org and leave this list for everything else. I don't really want people counting their bytes when they are concerned about a technical issue in an I-D. It may take several exchanges for a disagreement to be resolved. Social pressure to stay out of the top-N report could have a negative impact on last call debates. Thomas > > Andy