RE: Question

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

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> From: 	Eric Gray[SMTP:eric.gray@sandburst.com]
> Sent: 	Wednesday, June 27, 2001 5:31 PM
> To: 	Common Control and Measurement Protocols - List Manager
> Cc: 	Common Control and Measurement Protocols
> Subject: 	Question
> 
> Hi.
> 
>     My understanding of IETF policy is that the mailing lists are
> required to be public.  This is necessary in order for someone who
> is posting to such a list to be able to determine who might be a
> recipient.
> 
I am not aware that there are any rules that anybody should be able 
to find out. In fact... I'd rather see that not just anybody can go and 
query the IETF mailing list subscriptions and then use that info for 
spamming us.

>     This turns out to be a fair and important requirement based on
> recent discussions concerning 'cross-posting'.  I would like to
I did send that posting about "pls do not cross-post".
I think that if we have a specific topic, then we should be able
to figure out in which WG it belongs, or which WG chairs agree
to discuss the topic on their WG mailing list. Once we have
decided that, then it is appropriate to ONLY discuss it there,
and then if anyone feels that some other mlist should be aware,
then you could do a short posting to state that "discussion X
is going on over in WG Z, pls join us on mlist Z if this topic
is in your interest area".

Bert
> be able to determine - on my own - whether or not there is in
> fact a large cross-section in common between this mailing list
> and the mailing list for MPLS.  I would also like to be able to
> explicitly detemine who is 'missing' from each list.  This is very
> useful when - for example - I discover that I (or someone else)
> has inadvertently posted to the wrong list and I do not want to
> send duplicate messages.
> 
>     Please advise how I am supposed to be able to do this if you
> have disabled the 'who' command for this public mailing list?
> 
> --
> Eric Gray
> 
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