>while the spam discussion has been entertaining as usual, for those who Not particularly entertaining for me. >- There is a proper forum for discussing anti-spam proposals. It is the >mailing list of the IRTF antispam research group, asrg@ietf.org. >This proposal fits within their taxonomy of antispam solutions ><http://www.irtf.org/asrg/survey_of_proposals.htm>, and the discussion is >therefore appropriate to that forum. Consult the ASRG charter and web pages >for guidelines for appropriate discussion. Will do. Thank you. As I said previously, I started here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/inet-standards.html And here: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/editor-info.html Which recommend going through IEFT. >- The charter of the IETF discussion list says that "unprofessional >commentary" is inappropriate for the list. While it can certainly be >entertaining to watch people try to define each other as kooks of various >kinds, it is also definitely unprofessional commentary. Agreed 100%! Wish you would have said that earlier to the person who started the "Kook" thread. >So is drawing conclusions in public about other people's intelligence, >education and previous epxerience. Which was the whole point of making a "Kook" thread to try to discredit my post or using the words "<plonk>" to address my serious post. > Summary: Please move over, folks - wrong arena! As I said, "I'll believe that when I see more engineering posts than I see posts in the Kook thread" or ones addresses my posts with the word "plonk". Professionalism is I think one of the words I used to <rant> about what was happening. I will move over now to IRTF and expect to go through this whole nasty reception thing all over again. Yippie! :) Shelby Moore http://AntiViotic.com