I believe the term is "tmda", not "tdma". TDMA is a type of cell phone technology. On 10/3/07, Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I don't see a problem if we eat our own dog food. > > The use of tdma type tech for mailing list subscriptions has been > considered best practice for over a decade. Personal use is nasty, brutish > and hopefully short. > > Allowing unsubscribed persons to post after a tdma authentication is a > courtesy, there is no obligation to extend it in the first place. > > Pooling the tdma responses across multiple ietf mailing lists is a further > courtesy. > > > There is more we can do here but no more that we should feel obliged to do > - ecept for the fact that we are a standards organization and should eat the > dog food. > > In particular, sign the messages with dkim and deploy spf. > > > > Sent from my GoodLink Wireless Handheld (www.good.com) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Thomas [mailto:mat@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2007 08:23 AM Pacific Standard Time > To: Brian E Carpenter > Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries > > Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > Speaking personally, I think annual reconfirmation is quite reasonable. > > The message sent to the user should make it clear that it is an > > annual process. > > Except... the annual confirmation is probably going to get accidentally > deleted by a lot of people because they think it's the monthly notice. > > If this is a real problem, wouldn't it be better to take it up with the > mailman > folks since I'd expect that it's not just ietf? I've been working with > them on > dkim related stuff and they are quite reasonable folks. Maybe they have > some > ideas on this front. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > -- Clint (JOATMON) Chaplin Principal Engineer Corporate Standardization (US) SISA _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf