Re: Adobe Corporation, Larry Masinter

On 17 August 2014 19:05, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote:

>  The original question was ‘where to host a discussion with TAG election
> candidates’, and avoiding spamming www-tag. But hopefully the Q&A and
> discussions would be relevant to discussion of TAG priorities and
> activities.
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> One of the important functions of standards development organizations is
> to moderate discussion. There are various reasons that individuals and
> organizations might want to disrupt the ordinary process of one SDO or
> another.
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> The closest I can find in W3C policy is http://www.w3.org/Mail/ which
> points to http://www.w3.org/Mail/Spam.html which suggests that “ other
> off-topic e-mail “ is spam, and notes remedies that might be  invoked, I
> think it would be appropriate here.
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> I’d suggest further discussion of general email abuse on W3C lists go to
> public-w3process@w3.org. I know IETF has gone through several iterations
> of methods to address moderation of posting rights, with a recent flurry of
> activity because of novel abuse patterns.
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+1


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