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This subgroup will research and document best practices for spam management.

Previous BCP subgroup has been active from September of 2003 until December of 2003 when it was shutdown due to lack of active members. This subgroup is currently in formation, will be restarting as soon as we have enough interested participants.

1. Review RFC 2505 - "Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs", and produce an outline and prototypes of suggested changes.
2. Review RFCs 2635 - "DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*)"3098 - "How to Advertise Responsibly Using E-Mail and Newsgroups or - how NOT to $$$$$ MAKE ENEMIES FAST! $$$$", and either produce an outline of changes with suggestions, or a recommendation to make the RFCs historical with an explanation.
3. Research BCPs for other areas including community support, sufficient interest, prototype documents, and draft charters for IETF WGs. Possible BCPs include end users, ISPs, blacklists, abuse desk staff, MUAs, MTAs, etc.
4. At some point transfer documents to the IETF for standardization.

Initial BCP subgroup was headed by Brad Knowles. Currently, this subgroup has no leadership and it is in formation. Interested parties should contact the ASRG chairs.

This subgroup has a closed membership policy, to join contact the ASRG chairs.

Intended Participants:
• ISPs and MTA administrators including abuse desk staff
• Blacklist operators and anti-spam databases of spammers such as SpamHaus
• Developers of abuse help desk systems such as Abacus, AbusePipe, etc.
• Email senders/advertisers
• End users
• Developers of MTAs and MUAs

To subscribe to the list contact the subgroup chair(s) or ASRG chairs. Archives of the old BCP subgroup are available in MBOX and ZIP formats. Archives of the current list can be found at Gmane.

There are several RFCs which are relevant to this subgroup:

• RFC 2505: Anti-Spam Recommendations for SMTP MTAs
• RFC 2635: DON'T SPEW: A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited Mailings and Postings (spam*)
• RFC 3098: How to Advertise Responsibly Using E-Mail and Newsgroups or - how NOT to  $$$$$  MAKE ENEMIES FAST!  $$$$$