Re: Authentication and email

[Andy Bierman <abierman@cisco.com>]

At 09:47 AM 1/28/2003 -0800, Stephen Casner wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>
>> (yes, the secretariat plans to do manual scanning of the
>> caught spam to check for the false positives).
>
>I presume that is just for the ietf list (and others for which the
>secretariat is the admin) but that wg lists would go in the mailman
>hold queue like current non-subscriber mail?

Can we change this policy slightly?
There are some emails that are so obviously SPAM, that they should
just be dropped instead of put in the hold queue.  Mail identified
to contain executables (virii) can also be dropped.

The WEB interface to manage the hold queue requires lots of 
frequent manual intervention.  In the 2 mailing lists I run,
the ratio of junk to legitimate WG mail is about 500:1.


>                                                        -- Steve

Andy