MIXER example (mailing list size/activity)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

--On torsdag, mars 13, 2003 08:43:49 +0100 Harald Tveit Alvestrand 
<harald at alvestrand.no> wrote:

> I'll provide one that superficially fits the symptoms: MIXER (MIME/X.400
> gatewaying) - concluded March 1998.
>
> - Enormous initial interest
> - Just a few people commented on the final-final versions of the document
> - The docs have NOT been widely adopted
>

and yes - I think the MIXER documents would have been much more useful to 
the Internet if they had been out 2 years earlier..... I think the WG was a 
classic example of the "unable to finish within reasonable timeframe" 
disease.... but I still think the documents were of acceptable quality....