On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Joel Jaeggli <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 1, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Kurt Zeilenga wrote: > >> >> On Jul 1, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: >> >>> the ietf has some of the more heavily and consistently moderated mailing >>> lists on the planet. >> >> but how well does the IETF do in not producing email in response to SPAM? >> Seems the IETF generates a lot of backscatter, and aside from scattering >> this to individual boxes all over the Internet, it's going to scatter into >> various spam traps… and that's likely to cause a listing in any services >> that use spam traps. Those who implement spam traps do put filters on them, >> so that commonly produced bounces don't cause listing, but it's had to deal >> with the many custom bounce messages (especially ones which don't use >> standard headers to indicate they are auto-generated). >> >> Has anyone examined all the various sorts of auto-generated messages the >> IETF produces to make sure they are reasonably detected as auto-generated >> messages? >> >> That should be part of us doing our part to help deal with SPAM. > > I watch all the bounces for about half a dozen of the high traffic lists. >
Can you (or anyone else) confirm the IETF status ? DId we get off of the blacklist? Regards Marshall > One of the more annoying things I see is bounces from subscribed members due > to the sender being listed somewhere. when this happens with frequency those > particapants that bounce messages to mailman get ejects from the list... We > don't have the luxury of just ejecting someone from list because the source > ip they are using today is listed in spamhaus but if you recject enough mail > from us you're going to fall off. > > Honestly I think the backscatter is frankly rather low as a purportion of net > volume but the volume is large. > > A busy day on the ietf discuss list bursts out to a few hundred thousand > messages however, for a single list. > >> -- Kurt >> > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
