Announcement: Deployment of anti-spam measures BoF

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Announcement:	Deployment of anti-spam measures BoF
Date:		Wednesday 28th January p.m. (exact time t.b.d.)
Convenor:	John Martin
Location:	Park Plaza

Unsolicited Commercial Email, (UCE or "spam" as it is more colloquially
known), is a well known and established problem on the internet today. Many
users now regularly receive 10's of these messages per day - sometimes
more. Anti-spam measures range from blocking of IP addresses at gateways /
hubs  to sophisticated "learning" algorithms which operate at the user end.
However, these measures are often not straightforward and are not,
lamentably, very widely deployed.

The purpose of this BoF is to determine whether effective measures can be
taken to deploy these measures more widely within our constituency and will
concentrate on a managable subset - email-spam and deployment of anti-spam
measures - rather than the wider problems or issues (which are discussed
elsewhere).

An agenda will be distributed closer to the meeting - suggestions should be
sent to the convenor, John Martin martin@localhost. If you would like to
make a presentation, please say so in advance.

The meeting is a joint TERENA / RIPE iniative and is open to all.

(For information about anti-spam measures, see http://spam.abuse.net/)