> The recent discussion about SPAM and it being a problem reminds of > something that I've been meaning to mention. Currently, mail sent to > the IETF announce mailing list has the following To: header: > > To: ;@IETF-Announce actually, it's: To: IETF-Announce:; which is perfectly valid. maybe your site has mailer bug which is munging the address? > This is worth 1.1 points of "Spam nature" (sort of like Buddha nature, > only completely different :-), according to SpamAssassin: this is only one example of a large number of problems with SpamAssassin. please explain why IETF should follow the dictates of SpamAssissin rather than its own mail specifications ? Keith