From: "Chris Lewis" <clewis(_at_)nortelnetworks(_dot_)com>
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Maybe so or maybe not. Using the DCC to reject all bulk mail would
prune a lot of conference announcements and calls for papers. I think
that would be a good thing, but I know others disagree with me.
Not _inbound_ to the IETF.
Only if they spammed it, got DCC reports, and then forwarded to the IETF
would it get blocked. Which is what you want, no?
I don't understand.
The right way to apply the DCC to IETF mailing lists would be with
addressee threasholds of 5 or at most 10 to allow a little cross-posting.
Any message received by an IETF SMTP server and sent to more than 5
or 10 addresses would be rejected as "unsolicited bulk" using 5 or 10
as the definition of "bulk" and the notion that no IETF mailing list
ever solicits any bulk mail.
CFPs are often bulkier than 5 or 10 when they first appear on an IETF
mailing list. After one copy has been exploded on one IETF list, another
copy to another IETF list is likely to be a 100 or 1000 times bulkier.
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com