grenville armitage writes: > - protects agains dilution of a WG's historical record (archives > that soak up all posts to the WG's mailing list)
Stop blindly archiving every message, and this ceases to be a problem. > - improves the 'signal to distraction' ratio of traffic on the list > (particularly important for list residents charged with keeping > things on charter and evaluating rough consensus) Distraction is in the eye of the beholder. Ignoring something requires no action; paying attention to it requires action. Thus, distraction is always an explicit action on the part of the receiver; it is never forced by the sender. > Yes, revocation of posting privileges and receiver-side filtering both > cause a drop in traffic reaching one's inbox. But that doesn't > make the actions equivalent. Yes. The former is censorship, the latter is not. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
