> From: "Chris Lewis" <clewis@nortelnetworks.com> > ... > > Maybe so or maybe not. Using the DCC to reject all bulk mail would > > prune a lot of conference announcements and calls for papers. I think > > that would be a good thing, but I know others disagree with me. > > Not _inbound_ to the IETF. > > Only if they spammed it, got DCC reports, and then forwarded to the IETF > would it get blocked. Which is what you want, no? I don't understand. The right way to apply the DCC to IETF mailing lists would be with addressee threasholds of 5 or at most 10 to allow a little cross-posting. Any message received by an IETF SMTP server and sent to more than 5 or 10 addresses would be rejected as "unsolicited bulk" using 5 or 10 as the definition of "bulk" and the notion that no IETF mailing list ever solicits any bulk mail. CFPs are often bulkier than 5 or 10 when they first appear on an IETF mailing list. After one copy has been exploded on one IETF list, another copy to another IETF list is likely to be a 100 or 1000 times bulkier. Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com