Re: Authentication and email

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On 28. januar 2003 14:18 +0200 Gonzalo Camarillo 
<Gonzalo.Camarillo@lmf.ericsson.se> wrote:

> They looked like SPAM mails to me. But in any event... does that matter?
>
> Are we going to wait until they *are* SPAM mails and they *have* email
> addresses of real subscribers before we make something?
far from it - the secretariat is testing out some antispam software even as 
we speak, and plans to make that service available to IETF-based lists.
BUT - ALL antispam software I've seen has false positives. This means that 
imposing antispam controls on mailing lists will mena that SOME postings 
that include things like LOTS OF YELLING will be delayed significantly in 
the process. (yes, the secretariat plans to do manual scanning of the 
caught spam to check for the false positives).

So it's not a free lunch.

                        Harald