At 10:10 -0600 12/20/00, Robert G. Ferrell wrote:
> >We *should* worry about people
> >who come to the IETF once and never come back - because they probably came
> >to the wrong meeting, and went home unhappy.
>
>Well, you've certainly convinced me never to attend a meeting.
>
>The attitude being promulgated by the majority of these posts,
>whether justified or not, is most likely to lead (IMO)
>to IETF meetings populated by two distinct groups of people:
>
>1) Old timers
>2) The clueless masses
The properties of this sort of democratic process are well-known and
well-understood. As any student of the Soviet Union will tell you,
this is precisely how the Old Guard maintained control of the CP.
