Yes, they are. I've been editing a document that lays out some of
the strong arguments in their favor. It's still a draft (and may
always be because I keep revising it), but here's a version of it:
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Mailing lists, which were sometimes called "reflectors" in their early
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On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 04:16:10PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
That said, yes, the ruleset for IETF mailing lists probably needs
tweaking, given the unusual nature of our content, with respect to
spam/anti-spam work.
There's no need to run SpamAssassin on the IETF lists: simply configure
On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 08:46:00AM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
NNTP was designed 30 years ago. We should consider moving on. The
modern protocol world is JSON/REST
Let's not be so quick to dismiss NNTP: it's a more elegant weapon from
a more civilized age. ;) It has long since proven
