John Leslie wrote:
Yakov Shafranovich <research(_at_)solidmatrix(_dot_)com> wrote:
Many of these principles have been well argued over many times. Can you
clarify where you want to go with this?
In my experience, discussion of spam-abatement always gets engulfed
in flame-wars between people who know the "one-true-spam-solution" and
feel obliged to correct others whose "one-true-spam-solution" differs
in the slightest detail.
Some shared basis is needed to get past the initial flame-wars.
I don't honestly know whether working up consensus on principles is the
best way to accomplish that, but it seems like a relatively easy way.
In any case, I _don't_ intend that such a discussion should happen
_during_ the BoF. The principles I posted represent a first pass at
consensus on the <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org> (IETF General) mailing list: thus
they _might_ be a good starting point for such a discussion when a WG
forms.
Such list would be very useful although I am not 100% certain you can
get everyone to agree. My only concern here is that the scope of the WG
if there is going to be one, might be too limited for this discussion.
BTW: I have no desire to start a long-winded discussion on this list;
but I'm replying to Yakov, who evidently felt it was important to ask
on-list.
I am replying to the rest of this off-list, thanks for the hint :)
Yakov