Re: spam in official comment lists

  cidentally, let me remark the anomaly of www-xpath-comments here
  (and why the problem isn't this easy to solve): "comments" lists
  should NOT be subscribe-only, because historically this was 
  not felt to be a good solution: if you want to send a comment/typo etc
  on a spec, you just send email to the feedback list; you shouldn't
  *force* the user to subscribe to anything 

the xpath comment list is not subscribe only, you can post to it without
subscribing, it's just that in that case it gets moderated (by Max) but
this is invisible to the poster (except for a slight delay in it
appearing in the archive.


The problem with having a policy that the official lists take only
comments and not discussion is that if the WG put out several hundred
pages over five documents all on the same day, it is more or less
impossible to make clear "black and white" comments except for trivial
mistakes and typos. Almost any technical comments are going to be more
discussion points and requests for clarifications or suggestions of
possible other approaches. So either all discussion moves over to 
www-ql and xsl-list in which case currently none of it is officially
counted as a response to the WG or some discussion happens on the
comment lists or threads swap between lists which just gets confusing.


David

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