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

Tim Chown tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Mar 27 14:06:56 GMT 2003


It may be that the organisers don't notice the shift.

Of course, most of the talks are what people offer to present, so if you have
neat ideas in the apps area, submit them :)

Tim

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:33:07PM +0000, Peter Bates wrote:
> Hello all...
>
> > [...]
> > 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. ]
>
> I recall replying in vague terms about this when it was first mentioned by Julian on this list.
>
> I also recall it being listed in the agenda as occurring at the same time as a BoF about the new 'Bandwidth Management Advisory Service', so I grumbled about that.
>
> I'd agree with other comments made here about the shift of Networkshop from discussing topics further up the OSI layer tree to more 'host level' issues (there is a presentation from Messagelabs and assorted JANET-CERT shenanigans)... in the case of our much smaller site, I do look after our email, but then also our firewall, Cisco routers, Squid proxy, etc...
>
> Networkshop is probably therefore reflecting a shift in responsibilities of some of the people attending as much as anything else...
>
> I'd still like to hear a brief discussion about the impact of RIPA on our responsibilities as 'email administrators' though, but I suppose that isn't MS specific... it just happened to rear its ugly head with regard to me requesting that the 'Subject:' field of an email be logged with a positive identification so I could use it to improve local filters.
>
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