[Nanog-futures] Charter and crossposting.

[Randy Bush]

Simon Lyall wrote:
> I notice that the charter (both and and the new proposal) explicitly bans
> crossposting to the list. However every week we get:
> 
> The Cidr Report		- Crossposted to 4 others lists
> BGP Update Report		- Crossposted to 5 others lists
> Weekly Routing Table Report	- Crossposted to 5 others lists
> 
> Could either the policies (now and future) please be updated to either
> allow these or could the mailing list admins please take measures to stop
> them occuring.

being one of those who subscribes to most of the lists to which the
cross-posting occurs, and running procmail that filters all but the
first copy to arrive, i really appreciate the cross-posting as opposed
to individual messages.

could someone please explain what the ban on cross-posting is meant to
accomplish?  i am sure it is a good thing, i just don't remember why.
perhaps it's a lack of coffee.

otoh, making exceptions is one of the reasons we have humans on the mlc
as opposed to automata.

randy