Re: Provreg list administratrivia.

[Patrik Fältström <paf@cisco.com>]

At 10.38 +0100 01-01-02, Lars-Johan Liman wrote:
>Please note that the mail server for the <ietf-provreg@cafax.se>
>maillist has mild spamfilters installed, and that it permits only list
>members to send messages to the list.

For an IETF wg mailing list, the messages which are rejected must be 
sent to a human which then can make a decision manually whether the 
message should be accepted or not.

The requirements for a wg mailing list in the IETF include the following:

  - Subscribing to the list should be simple, and one should not have to
    give away other information than the email address. Being forced to
    do so violates the laws in some countries in the world, including
    but not limited to, Sweden.
  - An email archive must exist which anyone on the Internet can access
    via FTP and/or HTTP without giving away any information at all.
  - Sending messages to the list must be possible for all users on the
    Internet, including non-subscribed users. I.e. cross posting between
    mailing lists must be possible.
  - It is ok to have a manual filter (a user allowing messages but not
    spam through) for non-subscribed members, but never an automatic
    rejection mechanism.
  - Any time a message is rejected, the sender of the message should be
    informed why, and a copy of the communication between the person
    running the filter and the person sending the rejected message
    should be archived.
  - The user <wgacronym>-archive@lists.ietf.org must be subscribed to
    the mailing list.

      paf


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