Re: Re-activation of TMDA in front of mailing lists on ietf.org

[Eric Burger <eburger at bea.com>]

Yippee!


On 5/4/08 5:34 PM, "Henrik Levkowetz" <henrik at levkowetz.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> Between Glen of the AMS and myself, we've now worked out a way to put
> TMDA in place in front of all the mailing list without requiring manual
> work and maintenance for each individual list.
> 
> The setup will use one common whitelist for all the lists.  The whitelist
> will be pre-seeded with all the current regular subscribers to any of the
> mailing lists on ietf.org.  People who aren't subscribed to any list will
> be required to confirm their first posting.
>   
> The old whitelist apparently had more than 40 000 entries, which I believe
> is a lot more than the number of people currently subscribed to the mailing
> lists.  In order to both keep the size of the whitelist reasonable, and to
> regularly clean out entries for robots, we propose to let non-subscriber
> entries on the whitelist time out after 6 months, which will mean that
> non-subscribers will need to acknowledge a posting every 6 months or so.
> 
> We plan to put this in place in two days, on Tuesday May 6th, around
> 17:00 GMT.
> 
> Any comments on the above, before we go ahead?
> 
> 
> Henrik
> 


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Subject: Re: Re-activation of TMDA in front of mailing lists on ietf.org
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Yippee!


On 5/4/08 5:34 PM, "Henrik Levkowetz" <henrik at levkowetz.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> Between Glen of the AMS and myself, we've now worked out a way to put
> TMDA in place in front of all the mailing list without requiring manual
> work and maintenance for each individual list.
> 
> The setup will use one common whitelist for all the lists.  The whitelist
> will be pre-seeded with all the current regular subscribers to any of the
> mailing lists on ietf.org.  People who aren't subscribed to any list will
> be required to confirm their first posting.
>   
> The old whitelist apparently had more than 40 000 entries, which I believe
> is a lot more than the number of people currently subscribed to the mailing
> lists.  In order to both keep the size of the whitelist reasonable, and to
> regularly clean out entries for robots, we propose to let non-subscriber
> entries on the whitelist time out after 6 months, which will mean that
> non-subscribers will need to acknowledge a posting every 6 months or so.
> 
> We plan to put this in place in two days, on Tuesday May 6th, around
> 17:00 GMT.
> 
> Any comments on the above, before we go ahead?
> 
> 
> Henrik
> 


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