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Re: Corporate email attachment filters and IETF emails

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Wed, 09 December 2009 16:39 UTC

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To: Wes Hardaker <wjhns1@hardakers.net>
Subject: Re: Corporate email attachment filters and IETF emails
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Cc: Robert Moskowitz <rgm-ietf@htt-consult.com>, ietf@ietf.org, dcrocker@bbiw.net
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Wes Hardaker wrote:
> ...
> But consider the fact that: half the purpose of posting an ID is to get
> comments about it sent to you.  Consider then that if you have any sort
> of aggressive filtering in place that's blocking your receipt of the
> verification messages then the chances are very very high that you'll
> also block comments from some random person out there that happens to
> look questionable to your companies blocking algorithms.
> ...

I would hope that the ID actually points out a specific IETF mailing 
list for comments, and the author is reading it.

BR, Julian

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