On Tuesday 02 October 2007 18:49, Russ Housley wrote: > The Secretariat tells me that Spammers are responding to TDMA queries > so that their mail goes through. They have made the suggestion that > we clear the list of people once per year. This would mean that a > legitimate user of a list that uses TDMA would get a TDMA query once > a year if they are not subscribed to any ietf.org mail list. There > is no TDMA query for people who are on at least one ietf.org mail list. > > Here is the info that I have: > > > Russ wants to know how many people have responded to the TMDA > > > challenge but are not on any IETF mailing list. > > > >1025 mail addresses have "confirmed" their address. I would bet that > >at least 20% of the confirmed are spam addresses (or autoconfirmed > >addresses) > > Thoughts? > Randomly unsubscribing non-abusing mailing list subscribers is unlikely to be an effective spam fighting tool. If people spam an IETF list, unsubscribe them. If not, don't. It's not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve. Scott K _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf