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From: "Ejay Hire" <ejay.hire@isdn.net> To: "'Bill Nash'" <billn@billn.net>, "'Steve Sobol'" <sjsobol@JustThe.net> Cc: "'Susan Harris'" <srh@merit.edu>, <nanog@merit.edu>, "'Betty Burke'" <bburke@merit.edu> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 17:34:38 -0600 In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501040922390.30608@bacchus.billn.net> Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu I second this request. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On > Behalf Of Bill Nash > Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 11:51 AM > To: Steve Sobol > Cc: Susan Harris; nanog@merit.edu; 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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