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

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

In normal mode I check all bounces, and so then I follow the
policy we published. 
It is only this week that I have deviated because of the
multi-thousands of spam messages. I would hope this sort
of thing is rare enough that we do not need to add policy
to cover it.

Thanks,
Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Zinin [mailto:zinin@psg.com]
> Sent: donderdag 21 augustus 2003 23:02
> To: Steven M. Bellovin
> Cc: Wijnen, Bert (Bert); iesg@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: WG mailing list: auto discard from non-subscribers?
> 
> 
> 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)