Gentlemen,
Thank you for your responses. I am certainly aware of egroups.com, as
I host a list there, and a good friend of mine is one of their
architects. I asked about hosting it at ietf.org only to establish
wether this was or was not accepted procedure.
The rational for *not* allowing this sounds perfectly reasonable to
me. :-)
Just for future reference -- if a WG is formed, what is the usual
procedure regarding pre-existing mailing lists? Does the WG continue
using the original list? Are archives transferred? Or just linked
with an href?
-- Kaelin
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----- Original Message -----
From: Lloyd Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Thomas Narten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Kaelin Colclasure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 3:19 PM
Subject: Re: Mailing list for forming WG?
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Thomas Narten wrote:
>
> > > I apologize if this information is available elsewhere, but I was
> > > wondering if the Majordomo at ietf.org is a resource available for
> > > hosting mailing lists for discussions which aspire to be an IETF
> > > working group?
> >
> > The main problem with this is that not all mailing lists ever become
> > WGs. We'd be potentially opening up the floodgates to anyone who wants
> > a mailing list. I doubt that the secretariate has the resources for
> > that.
> >
> > Also, some might say that if an effort can't garner sufficient
> > interest for someone to be willing to host a mailing list, that is an
> > indication of lack of support for the topic.
>
> Then they've not been paying attention lately. A couple of services
> that spring to mind for setting up mailing lists are:
>
> http://www.onelist.com/
> http://www.egroups.com/
>
> The effort and level of knowledge required to set up a mailing list is
> pretty minimal these days.
>
> L.
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>
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