> From: "Chris Lewis" <clewis@nortelnetworks.com> > > I guess I shouldn't have used the V-word when talking about spam on > > the IRTF's mailing list about spam. > > > sheesh!--talk about utterly lame and misguided spam filters. > > But in the case of the V word, it works. ... I wonder if you'd say that if your employer were in the drug industry. > IETF mailing lists are particularly prone to high volumes of spam. I for > one am particularly glad that they're moving to filters. Takes a _huge_ > load of end-user complaints off _my_ head, as well as those of my > colleagues running IETF mailing lists of their own. > ... There are other things the IETF lists should do instead. To start, they should rejectm mail with MIME content headers declaring mail is not English, and specifically reject JP, KR, and GB character sets. They should probably also reject any MIME multipart mail, except that that would not only reject HTML junk but also signed messages. On the other hand, the messages with 5 KBytes of signature are at best irritating. I think they should also use the DCC to reject all bulk mail, but that's probably only my bias speaking. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com