Re: Mailing list policy

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Subject: Re: Mailing list policy
From: Kevin Farley <sixdrift at yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:48:50 -0700 (PDT)
In-reply-to: <3B097C27.30C364ED@ecal.com>
Reply-to: sixdrift at yahoo.com

--- John Stracke <francis at ecal.com> wrote:
> Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> >   This "list of lists", alas, would become a spammer/head-hunter
> target if
> > made too easily accessible, but we already have that problem.
> 
> In addition, it would mean that anybody subscribed to one IETF list
> could spam all
> of them, which would weaken the protection.  Today, if you want to
> spam all of
> them, you have to subscribe to all of them, which is impractical.
> 

Impractical, but through software, not impossible. Could readily be
automated.

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