Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-18 Thread Tim Kehres
Jeff, I don't think that I have seen any spam on this or the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mailing lists in quite a long time. Ad I can only recall two incidences where I have seen any spam on either list. So I guess I am wondering why there seems to be a perceived problem with spam on these

Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-18 Thread Tim Kehres
Defining spam as any unsolicited and undesirable mail not only makes it impossible for strangers to sent you mail but trivializes the offense and makes it harder to penalize the real spammers. Taken to an extreme (very close to it for some definitions), it makes it difficult to differentiate

Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-18 Thread Tim Kehres
From: Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] With respect to the second above issue - I am very aware of what happend - some of our people sent single directed messages (unsolicited) to parties they thought might be interested in what we do. They were single, short messages, sent from real