Subject: Reducing Spam on IETF RT Ticket System Queues

From: IETF Secretariat <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:51:14 -0400

Tomorrow, as the next stage in dealing with the impact of spam on IETF
operations, the Secretariat will start protecting its ticket system using the
TMDA tool (http://tmda.net).  Unknown senders of mail to various Secretariat
addresses will be required, once only, to manually confirm their intention to
send mail.  Email addresses subscribed to ietf.org mailing lists will be
automatically white-listed.

The first list to be protected will be tech-support/[email-masked].  If
all goes well with the first list, then the other lists will be protected over
the next week.

For your information, 99% of the mail reaching the Secretariat ticket system
today is spam (e.g., 289 of a 292 message sample).

The IETF Secretariat

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