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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Proposed list charter/AUP change?
I second this request. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Bill Nash > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:51 AM > To: Steve Sobol > Cc: Susan Harris; [email protected]; Betty Burke > Subject: Proposed list charter/AUP change? > > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005, Steve Sobol wrote: > > Susan keeps on claiming spam is offtopic for Nanog, yet the > AUP/Charter/FAQ > > don't mention spam other than telling us not to ask "I'm > being spammed, how > > can I make it stop?" > > > > If it's flat-out offtopic, no matter what, or if the > majority of list members > > don't want to talk about it on the list, why hasn't the FAQ > been updated? Or > > does Merit just want us to try to guess what is offtopic? > > > > Spam represents a significant percentage of email traffic, and its > delivery is increasingly via trojaned dsl/broadband devices. > Even spam > delivered from quasi-legitimate sources is usually an abuse > of resources > that some NSP/ISP is paying for. Discussion of functional > spam control at > the ISP level, I think, is absolutely on topic for a list of > this scope. > Please note, that I say 'functional'. Random complaints would > obviously > not fall into this category. > > Examples would include: > Working enterprise-scale spam filtering (Hourly mail volume > measured in > thousands) > Discussion of edge/core SMTP filtering to curtail spam sources. > Policy discussions for handling domestic and international > spam sources. > Implementation, or requests for implementation, of SPF and similiar > controls. > Inter-network cooperation for handling large scale issues. > > I think this last is pretty much exactly what a list like > this is for, be > it spam, regional power outages, BGP shenanigans, or > widespread squirrel > detonations. > > - billn
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