Melinda Shore writes: > Unfortunately that no longer works all that well on Usenet, > either. The participant pool grows to the point where there's > always somebody new, or somebody who thinks that the problem > person has a point and who wants to discuss it, or someone > who thinks the problem person doesn't have a point but has > some ill-defined right to be heard, and so on.
You say it as though these were bad things. > That can work well in some small, close-knit online > communities where there's a very large set of shared values, > but it doesn't work all that well here. That is, small communities where everyone has the same opinion and no deviations are tolerated. > Mind you, I just freakin' hate this. But I don't think the > process itself as described in 3683 is at all unreasonable. You'll hate it even more when they come looking for you instead. _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
