At 10:03 -0500 02-03-14, The IESG wrote: > The level of spam on IETF mailing lists has now reached the > level that we encourage the use of operational controls as > described in: > > http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/mail-submit-policy.txt > > In particular, list managers are encouraged to employ the > use of automatic mechanisms that immediately distribute > messages submitted by subscribers and other known email > addresses while directing all other messages to a human > reviewer for rejection or approval.
> 5) Mailing lists that check the sender's address as part of the > determinate of what might be spam must also support a list of "known > email addresses" whose submissions are automatically approved > without human intervention. The list of "known email addresses" must > include at least the following addresses: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will not the spammers soon learn to send their spams with one of these addresses as bogus sender? -- Jacob Palme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Stockholm University and KTH) for more info see URL: http://www.dsv.su.se/jpalme/
