One of the main reasons why anti-spam measures are failing is that the spam-artists are fraudulently hijacking people's email addresses so as to bypass anti-spam filters. My reading of the open enrollement policy is that anyone can contribute. I don't think that a secondary manual filter by which the first post to the list by an individual was only forwarded after moderation would breach that principle - but it would be one heck of a lot less work for the chairs than having to moderate every message. I certainly do not consider it an imposition on those who want to pontificate on Internet protocols to require them to actualy eat the company dog food and sign their messages with either PGP or S/MIME. I am not pushing a corporate interest here, a self signed certificate would be fine. I think that one of the problems for the PKI world is that the perfect has been the enemy of the good. OK you can argue that it would not exactly hurt VRSN if more people started to use security routinely, I don't think that would hurt the IETF either. Phill > -----Original Message----- > From: Aaron Swartz [mailto:me@aaronsw.com] > Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 10:43 AM > To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip > Cc: iesg@ietf.org; namedroppers@ops.ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: namedroppers, continued > > > Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > > The only way to resolve this issue properly would be to > require every > > submission to an IETF mailing list to be cryptographically signed > > [and] to require the subscribers to register their signing key > > And how do we prevent spammers from registering their signing key? Are > you suggesting that we change the IETF's open enrollment policy? > > -- > Aaron Swartz [http://www.aaronsw.com] >
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