Re: Subscriptions to "ietf-honest"

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At 01:45 26-03-2009, Michael Dillon wrote:
Forget about exotic laws like CAN-SPAM. This systematic attempt to disrupt
IETF mailing lists should be enough to get a court injunction ordering him
to cease and desist. The Internet is irrelevant. The technology is irrelevant.

Let's step back and look at this differently.

1. The mere act of using an email address on a public mailing list or any public area will result in that email address being a target for spam. If you use the email address for one-to-one email exchanges only, it will still find its way onto a spam list.

2. It is trivial to harvest the email addresses of IETF participants who have posted messages to an IETF-related mailing list.

3. Mail servers generally have a feature to reject SMTP connections originating from an IP address or a domain. Most mail clients have a filtering feature which allows a message to be disposed if:

(i) email addresses in the author or recipient fields matches some criteria; or

   (ii) a specific word is found in the subject line.

4. There will always be someone somewhere attempting to "disrupt IETF mailing lists".

If the problem discussed in this thread is about spam, it can be addressed by item 3. There are also IETF mailing list policies to deal with spam if the problem is at the IETF's end.

By forwarding or quoting the questionable content, IETF participants are amplifying the message. If a person is subject to an existing PR-Action, the best course of action is not to post the person's message to an IETF mailing list unless the content is relevant to the discussion.

It is better for the IETF to take legal action or send cease and desist letters as an action of last resort. Such actions should not be used to put a stop to anti-social behavior as that only fuels the argument. It might also send the wrong message.

Regards,
-sm
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