[103735] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo Mail Update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sun Apr 13 12:40:50 2008
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:39:49 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
CC: Rob Szarka <szlists@szarka.org>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <bb0e440a0804130549j450f3941g4d68bbaac3896c14@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Rob Szarka <szlists@szarka.org> wrote:
>> True, though some aspects of mail service are inextricably tied to broader
>> networking issues, and thus participation here might still benefit them. But
>> sadly Yahoo doesn't even seem to participate in more relevant forums, such
>> as the spam-l list.
>
> There are other lists, far more relevant than spam-l or nanae.
>
> There's a way to present spam issues and mail filtering
> operationally.. and I see it all the time at MAAWG meetings, just for
> example.
MAAWG, is fine but the requirements for participation are substantially
higher than the nanog list.
> The issue here is that 90% of the comments on a thread related to this
> are from people who might be wizards at packet pushing, but cant
> filter spam. Or on mailserver lists you might find people who can
> write sendmail.cf from scratch instead of building it from a .mc file
> and still dont know about the right way to do spam filtering.
People who have operational problems don't generally get to pick the
skillset they already have just because a problem appears, some
cognizance of that is surely in order.
If the discussion is headed further in the meta-direction we should take
it to futures.
