Re: [chairs] SPAM - conclusions?

["Karl F. Best" <karl.best@oasis-open.org>]

Thanks for the summary Duane, and thanks to all of your who made 
suggestions or comments; they will help further discussions. In the 
interest of keeping traffic to a minimum (and I've heard a concern from 
at least one chair), I'll ask that we do wrap this up. The TAB chair has 
agreed to discuss this further, and OASIS IT staff is looking at 
possible solutions.

-Karl




Duane Nickull wrote:
> Thank you for all the discussion on this subject. Rather than this going 
> around some more,  I would like to take a stab at reconciling the views 
> and possible future actions.
> 
> Views: (correct me if this is wrong)
> 
> 1. There seems to be consensus that nothing should be done that prevents 
> a human from openly accessing a postee's email address to preserve the 
> openness of OASIS.  This may not preclude some sort of  human 
> decipherable obfuscation to prevent spam harvesters as long as it does 
> not affect human ability to send emails to respond.
> 
> 2. Many feel we should not take offensive action against spammers.  To 
> err on the side of sanity, it may be a good idea to not take any 
> offensive action.
> 
> 3. While many felt it may not be the best place to fight back, there 
> seems to be an equal or slightly greater number that are willing to do 
> everything within reason to prevent more spam.  The rational is a 
> feeling that fear of spam consequences prevents many people from 
> potentially participating in OASIS list discussions.
> 
> If the above is true, it seems to make sense to set up a small group to 
> study the issue and have the group make some recommendations back to the 
> OASIS TAB and Chairs.  If there is a way to prevent spam harvesting of 
> emails, perhaps it is our responsibility to do something.
> 
> I am willing to donate some time for this. This is an issue that will 
> free my time up in the future if we can curb the onslaught of ruthless 
> and malicious spam.
> 
> My CAD $0.02 worth
> 
> Duane Nickull
> 


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