<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Are you serious?</div><div><br></div><div>Needing university level mentoring to join a mailing list?</div><div><br></div><div>Never mind that you still don't understand how the IETF works. </div><div><br></div><div>el<br><br>-- <div>Sent from Dr Lisse's iPhone 5c</div></div><div><br>On Mar 3, 2014, at 13:44, Dawda Jatta <<a href="mailto:dawda.jatta@utg.edu.gm">dawda.jatta@utg.edu.gm</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Optima","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)">"May
be African young engineers need mentorship on how to follow and
participate in technical mailing lists? If yes, this should been done at
the University and national levels."<br></span>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><font size="1"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font color="#1f497d">I
strongly agree with you on this point. Using African universities
would be one of the best ways since this is where you can have
enthusiast young Engineers in the making. </font></span></font></b>
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</span></font></b><style type="text/css">P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }</style><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><b><font size="1"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font color="#1f497d">Was
going through IETF 87 – Berlin summary and it portion of it states
“... This meeting was also the first for our new mentoring system.
Volunteers from the IETF attendees had set up 50 mentors helping new
people find their way in the IETF...”. This is actually a good initiative and hoping that many young African Engineers will soon benefit from this mentoring.</font></span></font></b></p></div></div></blockquote>[...]</body></html>