[rpd] removing Digest feature Re: Forum for policy discussions?

[Hendrik Visage]

The *ONLY* reason I use digests (and especially not for the RPD mailing 
list) is for high volume mailing lists that I do NOT participant in the 
discussions, but just need it for references in search histories. None 
of those apply to the RPD mailing list, and dare I state all the other 
AfriNIC mailing lists too.

As such, I would also REQUEST that the digest feature be turned off in 
the era of AI responses as it is (a) low volumes and (b) the 
read/subscribers are active respondents in most cases and the confusion 
will just be worsen over time given the concurrent policy issues handled 
here.

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On 12 Oct 2026, at 10:27, Ben Roberts - AfriNIC via RPD wrote:

> +1 on both points.
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 12 Oct 2026, at 10:23, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> 
>> Digests in general cause more problems than they solve and I would 
>> favor AFRINIC discontinuing support for digests on RPD, personally.
>
>>
>> I don’t favor migrating away from email. I, and I suspect many 
>> other users have built various forms of automation over the years to 
>> handle and help manage list discussions. All of that effort would go 
>> out the window if we migrated away from email and it would, IMHO, 
>> make participation significantly less convenient. (I realize there 
>> are those in the community that would view that as a feature in my 
>> case, but nonetheless, I suspect I would not be the only person 
>> negatively impacted.)
>>
>> Owen
>
>>
>>> On Oct 8, 2026, at 08:57, ben.roberts--- via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> And dont reply to digests
>
>>>
>>> Get Outlook for Mac
>>>
>>> From: jordi.palet--- via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net>
>>> Date: Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 14:58
>>> To: rpd at afrinic.net <rpd at afrinic.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [rpd] Forum for policy discussions?
>
>>>
>>> And I will add:
>>>
>>> Keep the thread in the message, not start a new “empty” email.
>>>
>>> The emails I responded to today took much more time, and may have 
>>> even had misunderstandings, because the original message/thread was 
>>> not there.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jordi
>
>>> @jordipalet
>>>
>>>> El 8 oct 2026, a las 13:49, Jaco Kroon via RPD <rpd at afrinic.net> 
>>>> escribió:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>
>>>> If people stop using digests the problem would sort itself out on 
>>>> the spot.
>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>> Jaco
>
>>>> On 2026/10/08 07:11, Benson Muite wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Policy discussions have so far been done on a mailing list.  This 
>>>>> has
>>>>> worked well, but occasionally, the norm of keeping threads intact 
>>>>> is not
>>>>> followed and norms/policies for the AFRINIC RPD mailing list have 
>>>>> not
>>>>> been explicitly written down.  This can make it difficult to 
>>>>> follow
>>>>> discussions and for people new to mailing lists to make 
>>>>> contributions.
>
>>>>> Would using a tool like Loomio:
>>>>> https://www.loomio.com/
>>>>> be considered for managing discussions?  It could be hosted by 
>>>>> AFRINIC
>>>>> or by another service provider in Africa, or even elsewhere - ip 
>>>>> address
>>>>> log data would be the only thing that is not typically public.  As 
>>>>> the
>>>>> software is open source, it could be modified to better suite 
>>>>> Afrinic
>>>>> policy discussions.  It does have an API:
>>>>> https://www.loomio.com/docs/en/user_manual/integrations/api
>>>>> so creating a mobile application for those that do not want to use 
>>>>> the
>>>>> web interface is possible.  One can also setup chat integrations 
>>>>> for
>>>>> those who may prefer not to get notifications by email.
>
>>>>> AFRINIC is still running Mailman2, probably this will be updated 
>>>>> to
>>>>> Mailman3 or some other mailing list software, so some migration of
>>>>> communication infrastructure will occur and it maybe a good change 
>>>>> to
>>>>> evaluate what will work best for policy and other discussions.
>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Benson
>
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