[Asrg] The end of the ASRG

"John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Mon, 04 March 2013 04:07 UTC

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Subject: [Asrg] The end of the ASRG
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I've been talking to the head of the Internet Research Task Force, and 
have reluctantly agreed that since the ASRG hasn't doing anything for 
about a year, and doesn't seem likely to do anything in the future, it's 
time to shut it down.  The IETF meets next week, and barring a surprise, 
we'll probably pull the plug then.

There's plenty of anti-spam research to do, and a fair amount being done, 
but it's not being done here.

The ASRG wiki is hosted on a machine I personally own, and I expect to 
leave it up indefinitely, in case anyone has further interest in using or 
(hint hint) updating and extending the taxonomy of anti-spam techniques.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly