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<p dir="auto">On 12 Oct 2026, at 12:02, Sylvain BAYA wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">Le 8 octobre 2026 12:49:02 GMT+01:00, Jaco Kroon via RPD <a href="mailto:rpd@afrinic.net" style="color: #777777;">rpd@afrinic.net</a> a écrit :</p>
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<p dir="auto">Hi,</p>
<p dir="auto">If people stop using digests the problem would sort itself out on the spot.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Dear Jaco,<br>
Thanks for your email; brother!</p>
<p dir="auto">...imho! it's not a matter of existance of<br>
a particular <em>feature</em>; which particularly<br>
exists for a <em>good</em> reason.</p>
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<p dir="auto">The only reason for digests, I’ll contend to not be relevant in the RPD case as mentioned in another email</p>
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<p dir="auto">What i suspect is that: some use of that<br>
feature may result to an abuse behavior.</p>
<p dir="auto">If we observed it; then the recommended<br>
reaction, imho, should be to look at the<br>
causes and apply an appropriate fix.</p>
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<p dir="auto">The cause:</p>
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<li>Humans not following Netiquette</li>
<li>Humans feeding digests into LLM/AI/SI instead of the real email thus causing the issue.</li>
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<p dir="auto">I do have the theory that the use of the digests are also to hide the intentions or methods of entities that is out to frustrate AfriNIC and the RPD</p>
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<p dir="auto">...i propose to look at it twice or more;<br>
because, we need to avoid to easily set<br>
a precedent.<br>
We should note that, next time our preferred <em>feature</em> would be abused by<br>
some <em>exceptional</em> use; then next step<br>
would be obviously to call for removing it.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Where the “Feature” is not adding value or absolute minimal given the use of archives and LLMs/AI/SI, and all the while the feature is a source of abuse and frustration, I’ll be the first to vote for the removal.</p>
<p dir="auto">In this case, I’m content that the actual value is near minimal in the age of copilot/claude/clawd/etc. and (given the prevalence and increasing use of AI/SI/LLMs/Copilot/clawd/claude/hermes/etc. for doing exactly what digests are good for) will become more and more a source of frustration rather than adding value.</p>
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<p dir="auto">This is not what we want?</p>
<p dir="auto">...i recall that, there is this old resource:</p>
<p dir="auto">The rules of netiquette | Software Reference<br>
:: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120710021154/http://www.swref.com/story/20090705/the_rules_of_netiquette" style="color: #777777;">https://web.archive.org/web/20120710021154/http://www.swref.com/story/20090705/the_rules_of_netiquette</a></p>
<p dir="auto">Etiquette in technology#Netiquette<br>
:: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_technology#Netiquette" style="color: #777777;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_technology#Netiquette</a></p>
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<p dir="auto">Problem: the LLMs/AI/SI doesn’t adhere to that ;(<br>
We have seen that the past 6months ;(</p>
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