On Sun, Jun 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear Security Area Directors,
I saw an email exchange about a complaint on the Transport Layer
Security mailing list. There was a request to "use a fully
functional email address".
One of the problems which became less infrequent over the years is
email delivery issues when I reply to some participants by email. I
don't know whether those participants are aware that it was not
possible to have an email reply delivered to them because their mail
server rejected the email (reply). I find it easier to copy a
mailing list instead of getting in a discussion of whether the
sender's or receiver's email address is fully functional or not.
In this particular case, the individual should be aware, as they added an
auto-responder that senders need to respond to with a magic incantation
constituting some binding legal contract. They should not be surprised that
the majority of IETF participants will refuse to engage with such additional
terms.
I want to note that using the IETF mailing lists for off-topic discussions because
you cannot email people individually, is not a good reason for using our mailing
lists.
It seems you are talking about other mail connectivity issues. As Area Director,
I myself have mostly stopped using the ietf aliases as these are not reliable
enough anymore due to forced bad deployment of various anti-spam technologies,
ironically devised by us at the IETF :P
Paul
