Vernon Schryver wrote:
From: "Chris Lewis" <clewis@nortelnetworks.com>I guess I shouldn't have used the V-word when talking about spam on the IRTF's mailing list about spam.sheesh!--talk about utterly lame and misguided spam filters.But in the case of the V word, it works. ...
Of course not. So? I'd simply not deploy such a filter.I wonder if you'd say that if your employer were in the drug industry.
IETF mailing lists are particularly prone to high volumes of spam. I for one am particularly glad that they're moving to filters. Takes a _huge_ load of end-user complaints off _my_ head, as well as those of my colleagues running IETF mailing lists of their own.
The IETF has no foreign language special interest groups? Like on character sets and internationalization? It would be as dumb as a pharmaceutical company banning the V word.There are other things the IETF lists should do instead. To start, they should rejectm mail with MIME content headers declaring mail is not English, and specifically reject JP, KR, and GB character sets.
That would annoy the Mime, multimedia and other specialized WGs would it not?They should probably also reject any MIME multipart mail,
I think they should also use the DCC to reject all bulk mail, but that's probably only my bias speaking.
That's a _much_ better idea than banning specific character sets or mime. _______________________________________________ Asrg mailing list Asrg@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/asrg