From: gnulinux(_at_)pacinfo(_dot_)com
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Having the latest tools means nothing, unless they are used right. Are
i'm using them correctly
I, for one, am unconvinced. I have had no trouble filtering unwanted
mail from this list, thanks to procmail. My various filters have no
trouble dealing with more than 99.9% of the unsolicited bulk mail
including viruses and worms directed at my mailbox. For my mail, my
filters have a total false positive rate (legitimate rejected divided
by total legitimate) of less than 0.1%. Whether your filters are doing
as well as you want them to does not seem like a concern of the IETF.
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the value in having the list processor sign all posts
is simple. guaranteed identification of the list
traffic for any recipient who decides to verify
signatures.
I think it would be simpler for all concerned and in this case just
as effective if the IETF list processor would offer to do SMTP-TLS and
for an appropriate cert to be published on http://ietf.org/
However, I would not suggesting that for any practical or operational
reason. It would merely set a good example.
Vernon Schryver vjs(_at_)rhyolite(_dot_)com