Re: WG mailing list: auto discard from non-subscribers?

[Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>]

So, if many ppl are already doing that, maybe we
should update the policy text?

-- 
Alex
http://www.psg.com/~zinin/

Thursday, August 21, 2003, 6:20:44 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In message <7D5D48D2CAA3D84C813F5B154F43B155023621E1@nl0006exch001u.nl.lucent.c
om>>, "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" writes:
>>I may not be follwoing the (required?) procedures, but currently
>>I am discarding ALL postings from non-subscribers to mibs mailing
>>list. I just do not have time to wade trhough the 1000+ spam
>>and virus alerts and all that. Sorry if there is a single valid
>>one that goes down the drain at the same time.

> I'm doing the same with the itrace mailing list, especially now with 
> SoBig flooding every email address in sight.  (I received almost 3K 
> SoBig-related emails last night alone.)

>                 --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
>                 http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)