Re: So what's happening here?

Mark E. Mallett wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:58:36PM -0400, Chuck Mead wrote:
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>>Alright so I've read through the ancient archives. Joined up to the chat
>>room to see what was happening there (is there something wrong with IRC?
>>Why Jabber?) and waited to see what was being discussed. Is there
>>something happening here or did the effort fade away? :-)
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>Hmm, no responses..
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>My impression is that the focus changed (or was not agreed on in the
>first place), the conversation moved off-list, and interest waned as a
>result.
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Sorry folks, I have dropped the ball on this one..  let's try again.

 John Levine asked me chair  the sub-group at the last IETF meeting.  He 
ask us to look at  changing focus a bit toward filters methods  that  
anti-spam (and maybe anti-virus) vendors could standardize on.. 
    Ex:  If Brightmail wrote a set of rules to block spam, my Mozilla 
client should be able to read those rules in and parse the spam as I 
download them).  If  there was a standard for the filter patterns, then 
it would be easier for Brightmail to play with all the MUA and MTA 
vendors.  (Now this may not be the best example since Brightmail may be 
interested in such standards, but you get the idea).

There has been no "off list" work that  I know of.   I did have one 
discussion with Shaun Bryant (at IETF60) about using a standard format.  
He had some good ideas.

Shawn,  feel free to chime in..

Thoughts?  Anyone?

Again, I apologize for dropping the ball on this one. ( I do live in 
Boston, where sport teams are known for "dropping the ball" ;)..  
Perhaps this year we can break the curse...

-Sam