Re: New Charter has been approved

Alex Rousskov <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Nov 2004 21:46:09 -0700 (MST)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.opes
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Spam is one of the proposed Use Cases, right? Since ICAP is already 
being used to do spam filtering (even though it is awkward to apply 
ICAP to SMTP) we should have no problem documenting the need for OPES 
for this particular use case.

Thanks,

Alex.

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, jfcm wrote:

> More seriously, I suggest that we carefully describe the deliverable 
> in not enligting too much - but fully documenting - how it can be 
> used against spam. So the demand for anti-spam comes from outside, 
> rather than we look selling it. We may get more development funding 
> from people with business HOPES (our promoting would be done by word 
> of the mouth). We may also be criticized if OPES actually do not 
> deliver, once we start testing or if takes time. Just a suggestion.