Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Tue, 15 April 2008 09:17 UTC

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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:17:21 +0100
From: Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists
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Having a single system for all WG lists has the appeal that whatever
process(es) handle the lists, it will be the same for all lists, so
you don't have to figure out how N different lists are run.

As a shameless plug, we have a free open source solution developed here
which is widely used against spam/viruses and that could do the job, see 
http://www.mailscanner.info/

-- 
Tim


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