Re: namedroppers mismanagement, continued

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin at law.miami.edu>]

I agree that a size limit would be appropriate, especially if it also
applied to the main list, but maybe even if it did not.

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Randy Presuhn wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 11:50:23 -0500 (EST)
> > From: "Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin at law.miami.edu>
> > To: ietf at ietf.org
> > Cc: iesg at ietf.org
> > Subject: Re: namedroppers mismanagement, continued
> > In-Reply-To: <20021127155832.12772.qmail at cr.yp.to>
> > Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10211271147380.7561-100000 at spitfire.law.miami.edu>
> ....
> > Regardless of the specifics of this case, I think a good rule would be to
> > say that all bounced messages on any IETF list MUST be archived on a
> > separate 'bounced' list.  To whom would this suggestion best be directed?
> ....
> 
> As someone who has maintained a couple of WG mailing lists
> for several years, I'd object to the imposition of such a
> requirement.  The amount of spam, especially *large* (megabyte
> or more) viral messages, directed at WG mailing lists makes
> keeping all the trash a highly unattractive proposition.
> 
> (Much of the viral spam I see bears the forged addresses
> of legitimate subscribers, so I have to resort to other
> mechanisms to keep the lists clean.)
> 
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