Re: [Asrg] defining the ASRG (was Re: draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: request for review for a non FUSSP proposal))

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 02 July 2009 14:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] defining the ASRG (was Re: draft-irtf-asrg-criteria (was Re: request for review for a non FUSSP proposal))
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>If we're going to go back to first principles, how 'bout discussing
>the purpose of the ASRG?  I joined thinking the word "research" was
>in there somewhere, but it's clear there's no research going on --
>and none likely to occur.

As far as I can tell, based on the papers at CEAS, there's precious
little spam-related research going on anywhere.

If people here were willing to put 1/10 of the work into research that they
do into arguing, we might have some actual research.

Perhaps I should make it so that whenever you update the wiki (where
we are ever so slowly building a taxonomy of anti-spam techniques and
even more slowly of spamming techniques) you get a credit that allows
you to send one message.

R's,
John