> Bush imposed his mailing-list control methods without IESG approval, in > violation of RFC 2418, section 3.2. Dan, The spam filtering applied to the namedroppers list is consistent with the IESG policy on spam control at http://www.ietf.org/IESG/Statements.html > What's stopping him from selectively delaying or discarding messages > that he doesn't like? How can we tell whether these were actually > ``mistakes''? Messages sent by subscribers to the list, or from addresses that have been explicitly requested to be added to the exception list of automatically approved non-subscriber posters, are sent to the list without any manual review. The manual review only applies to non-subscriber postings with the intent of filtering out spam that isn't caught by the automatic spam filtering, while allowing occasional messages, such as WG cross postings, to get through. However, any frequent posters to the list should either post from their subscription address or ask to be added to the exception list. Erik