[Politech] Call for volunteers in anti-spam working groups [sp]

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Date: Wed Feb 11 2004 - 21:47:07 PST

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    Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 17:42:10 -0500
    From: Yakov Shafranovich <research@private>
    Organization: SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc.
    To: Declan McCullagh <declan@private>
    
    Declan,
    
    Don't know how technical your subscribers are, but this might interest 
    them. The ASRG site is asrg.sp.am.
    
    Yakov
    
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    Subject: Soliciting Volunteers for Subgroups
    To: asrg-announce@private
    
    ASRG Members,
    
    We are forming subgroups in line with the new charter, and are seeking
    volunteers. Each subgroup has specific goals and targeted
    participants, which are described on the homepage of each subgroup. All
    subgroups currently being formed and active have a closed membership
    policy. To join, please contact the ASRG chairs, contact information can
    be found on the ASRG homepage: http://asrg.sp.am.
    
    We expect all of these to start next month depending on
    the feedback we receive and interest of the community. Feel free to
    forward this message along to interested parties.
    
    The list of the subgroups is as follows
    (http://asrg.sp.am/about/subgroups.shtml):
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    o Abuse Reporting Standards - researches standard formats and protocols
    for reporting email and network abuse
    Homepage: http://asrg.sp.am/subgroups/abuse_reports.shtml)
    
    o Analysis & Characterization (A&C) - applies empirical and quantitative
    methods to problems and issues surrounding spam
    Homepage: http://asrg.sp.am/subgroups/analysis.shtml
    
    o Best Current Practices (BCP) - researches and documents best practices
    for spam management
    Homepage: http://asrg.sp.am/subgroups/bcp.shtml
    
    o Filtering Standards (FILTERING) - researches filtering standards for
    dynamic updating and interaction with MTAs
    Homepage: http://asrg.sp.am/subgroups/filtering.shtml
    
    o Inventory of Problems - research problems with the current email
    architechture that facilitate spam
    http://asrg.sp.am/subgroups/problems.shtml
    
    o Message Verification (MSG-VERIFY) - researches solutions dealing with
    verification and authetication in the email messages and headers
    http://asrg.sp.am/subgroups/msg_verify.shtml
    
    o SMTP Session Verification (SMTP-VERIFY) - researches solutions dealing
    with authetication and verification of the SMTP session
    http://asrg.sp.am/subgroups/smtp_verify.shtml
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    Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
    SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
    "I want to know G-d's thoughts... the rest are details" (Albert Einstein)
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