Well, the current nanog MLC is mostly because Susan Harris was cracking down equally on discussions of anything mail / spam filtering related (operational not kooky) .. in fact, on anything that didnt involve pushing packets from A to B.
And we have Marty Hannigan from the MLC telling us that operational mail / spam filtering issues are perfectly on topic. New list not particularly necessary I think .. but sure, a spam or mailops bof at nanog would be a good idea. I (or well, APCAUCE) have been running a spam conference track at APRICOT for the past few years now .. This has veered from operational discussion into the realm of
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: meta-discussion about the list, so let's move it to nanog-futures. Reply-to has been set accordingly in this email, please respect it. MLC's position is that anything that is acceptable for the conference is acceptable on the list. Mail operations are on-topic, although tangentially. Spam filtering is definitely off-topic. -alex [mlc chair]