UK Networkshop BOF [ Was Re: MailScanner and SA 2.51 and Bayes]

[Tim Chown]

I think the BoF should be useful.  It's in the agenda I think, rather than
being advertised on the day, so I'd expect some new potential users to
turn up, plus those generally interested in anti-virus, anti-spam solutions.

Of course, most sites have now deployed *something*, so may be unlikely to
change unless they see the cost benefits (savings) of moving away from a
per-seat charging system.

Tim

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:50:14AM +0000, David Lee wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Julian Field wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > Still not had any requests for anything to discuss in the BoF session at
> > Networkshop.
>
> [ "Networkshop" is basically an annual get-together of the people in UK
> universities who run the networks. ]
>
> Julian: I wonder whether the lack of response to your BoF [Birds of a
> Feather] request for "Networkshop" is because the people who run
> MailScanner are often not those who go to Networkshop?
>
> Years and years ago, networking "applications" (FTP (as NIFTP), JTMP,
> email) were a major component of Networkshop, and the people who did
> networking were involved across the majority of levels of the ISO
> seven-layer model.
>
> But in recent years things have got more specialised (less "general
> practice").  I've got the feeling that Networkshop is concentrating,
> probably rightly, on just the lower layers (trnsaport/TCP and below),
> whereas email services can take transport/TCP for granted.
>
> (I used to go to Networkshop regularly, but I haven't been at all in
> recent years.)
>
> Networkshop a couple of years ago did a great advertising job of bringing
> MS to the attention of university I.T. departments via their networking
> folk.  But perhaps it isn't the appropriate forum for the non-advertising,
> technical detail of MS developments and services.
>
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