mail operators list

Wed Oct 31 04:12:42 UTC 2007

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:

> Well, the current nanog MLC is mostly because Susan Harris was cracking
> down equally on discussions of anything mail / spam filtering related
> (operational not kooky) .. in fact, on anything that didnt involve
> pushing packets from A to B.
> 
> And we have Marty Hannigan from the MLC telling us that operational mail
> / spam filtering issues are perfectly on topic.  New list not
> particularly necessary I think .. but sure, a spam or mailops bof at
> nanog would be a good idea. I (or well, APCAUCE) have been running a
> spam conference track at APRICOT for the past few years now ..
This has veered from operational discussion into the realm of
meta-discussion about the list, so let's move it to nanog-futures.  
Reply-to has been set accordingly in this email, please respect it.

MLC's position is that anything that is acceptable for the conference is 
acceptable on the list. Mail operations are on-topic, although 
tangentially. Spam filtering is definitely off-topic. 

-alex [mlc chair]