The IETF list itself was split from one list to "discussion" and "announcements." I don't see why "announcements" can't be split to "IDs" and "all other announcements." People would still get ID announcements to their WG lists of the particular ones they find pertinant and would still see Last Calls to the gen'l announcement list.
.02 April On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote: > At 4:02 PM -0600 11/13/01, Pete Resnick wrote: > >I am interested in getting all of the posts to the IETF-Announce > >list *except* for the greatest bulk of those posts: Internet Draft > >announcements. I find it hard to believe that I am the only one who > >would prefer if the I-D announcements were on a separate mailing > >list. Would it be possible to implement this? If I am correct and > >there are an awful lot of people who are uninterested in I-D > >announcements, > > Pete, you really should get a mail client that has an easy-to-use > filtering interface. :-) > > > it would cut down on outgoing mail of the secretariat substantially. > > Ah, that might be a consideration. Unless it turns out that the > secretariat's Internet connection bills are high, it seems worthwhile > to keep the lists merged. To many of us, seeing the names and titles > of new -00 drafts is as interesting as seeing RFC announcements. > Further, waiting until a draft is in IETF Last Call before people > notice it is not a good way to create protocols. > > --Paul Hoffman, Director > --Internet Mail Consortium > >
