- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:02:26 -0500
- To: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
- Cc: Web Payments IG <public-webpayments-ig@w3.org>
> On Apr 15, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote: > > Ian Jacobs wrote: >> Why not? > On 04/15/2015 10:04 AM, David Ezell wrote: >> The public ig list is set to be writable only by the IG members, but >> anyone can subscribe. > >> From what I understand, only IG members can subscribe. > > Look at the Web Payments CG list or the WebAppSec list (at the top, see > "subscribe to this list"): > > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments/ > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/ > > versus the Web Payments IG list (no option to subscribe): > > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webpayments-ig/ > > You can follow along via RSS, but that makes it nearly impossible to > respond to discussions in a way that is threaded (and the reply-to mail > headers are stripped, and even if they were there, they'd point to the > wrong mailing list). I will ask the Systems Team to enable non-participants to subscribe to the list. Or if there is a problem in doing that I will let you know. Ian > >> This was simply how it "came out of the box" from the chairs' point >> of view. >> >> I don't have any strong objection to changing it. > > One possible downside is that we get flooded w/ comments from a very > small subset of people that don't necessarily make constructive > comments. I've always found that this risk is worth taking in the name > of transparency and inclusivity. > > What I'm proposing is that we keep this mailing list the way it is, and > shunt those comments to the webpayments-ig-comments mailing list so that > those in this group w/ little time to deal w/ comments from the public > can ignore the webpayments-ig-comments mailing list and focus on this > list (which will have a much reduced email load). > > That said, if we wanted to open this mailing list up to the public like > webappsec and html is, I'd be all for that. :) > > -- manu > > -- > Manu Sporny (skype: msporny, twitter: manusporny, G+: +Manu Sporny) > Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc. > blog: High-Stakes Credentials and Web Login > http://manu.sporny.org/2014/identity-credentials/ > -- Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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