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Re: namedroppers mismanagement, continued

2002-11-28 10:26:39
Bush imposed his mailing-list control methods without IESG approval, in
violation of RFC 2418, section 3.2.

Dan,

The spam filtering applied to the namedroppers list is consistent
with the IESG policy on spam control at
http://www.ietf.org/IESG/Statements.html

What's stopping him from selectively delaying or discarding messages
that he doesn't like? How can we tell whether these were actually
``mistakes''?

Messages sent by subscribers to the list, or from addresses that have
been explicitly requested to be added to the exception list
of automatically approved non-subscriber posters, are sent to the list
without any manual review.

The manual review only applies to non-subscriber postings with the intent
of filtering out spam that isn't caught by the automatic spam filtering,
while allowing occasional messages, such as WG cross postings, to get through.
However, any frequent posters to the list should either post from
their subscription address or ask to be added to the exception list.

   Erik