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Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-15 10:10:03
On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Jacob Palme wrote:

At 10:03 -0500 02-03-14, The IESG wrote:
 The level of spam on IETF mailing lists has now reached the
 level that we encourage the use of operational controls as
 described in:

 http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/mail-submit-policy.txt

 In particular, list managers are encouraged to employ the
 use of automatic mechanisms that immediately distribute
 messages submitted by subscribers and other known email
 addresses while directing all other messages to a human
 reviewer for rejection or approval.

 5) Mailing lists that check the sender's address as part of the
    determinate of what might be spam must also support a list of "known
    email addresses" whose submissions are automatically approved
    without human intervention. The list of "known email addresses" must
    include at least the following addresses:

    internet-drafts(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
    rfc-editor(_at_)rfc-editor(_dot_)org
    iesg-secretary(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
    chair(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org

Will not the spammers soon learn to send their spams with
one of these addresses as bogus sender?

You overestimate the spammers :-).  Most probably have no idea what IETF 
is or that they're spamming an IETF list.

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