From el at lisse.na  Sat Feb  1 00:02:53 2025
From: el at lisse.na (Eberhard W Lisse)
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2025 10:02:53 +0200
Subject: [ih] mail hosting, Correct name for early TCP/IP working group?
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Historically IH has fit well here :-)-O

The moderator, whoever that be, makes the rules, and for all it is worth I myself kind of like that the odd off topic poster is reminded of the purpose of this list.

el


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On Feb 1, 2025 at 01:42 +0200, John Levine via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org>, wrote:
> It appears that Scott Bradner via Internet-history <sob at sobco.com> said:
> > a number of people on the list are complaining about ISOC's email rules but based on
> > this letter the choices may be the list moderator's (rules that make sense to me fwiw)
>
> ISOC is hosting this list basically as a favor to me, having asked them to do it when its
> previous host was no longer available. It's free, with a 200% money back guarantee.
>
> I'm on other lists hosted at groups.io, who provide exellent service and file hosting and
> all sorts of other goodies, for $220/yr. If people would prefer that, we could pass the
> hat and move it. Or we could figure that free is adequate.
>
> R's,
> John
>
> PS: "This list is very important but not so important that I'm willing to pay" is not
> a winning argument.
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