Re: CLOSE ASRG NOW IT HAS FAILED

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman at imc.org>]

At 11:27 AM -0600 6/16/03, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> All contributions that are rejected
> by any moderators (including spam filters) of any IRTF or IETF mailing
> lists must be archived and should be published on web pages somewhere.

FWIW, some of the IETF WG mailing lists that IMC runs get >10 spams a 
day, and often get the virus/trojans that are >120K each. This is not 
an insignificant amount of junk to wade through when looking for 
proof of moderator badness/goodness.

And there's also the problem of robots that harvest everything, 
regardless of your robots.txt file. If we had a system like you 
describe, it would be believable that the archives would get a fair 
number of hits from people searching for pr0n but finding our archive 
of spam instead.

I think that having all bounces (for whatever reason) archived is 
fine; I think having it as "web pages somewhere" is overkill. Access 
to one of the big text archives can be a trivial password given to 
anyone who wants it for research purposes.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium