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Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs

Seth <sethb@panix.com> Thu, 10 December 2009 05:39 UTC

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:39:16 -0500
Subject: Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs
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Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> wrote:

> If the mail delivery path is "spammer -> forwarder -> isp ->
> recipient" then the only useful places to report it are the ISP, the
> forwarder and (potentially) the spammer. If, instead, it's
> "spammer-pretending-to-be-a-forwarder -> isp -> recipient" then the
> only useful place to send it is the ISP, but sending it to the
> spammer as well has no real cost.

Problem: if the ISP gets the report and doesn't know that the
forwarder is legitimate, it will damage the reputation of the
forwarder.

> I might have missed a suggestion to not send it to the ISP, only to
> the apparent forwarder, when there was something that looked like a
> forwarder - if so, don't do that. :)

Not "looked like" but "was verified by the user, by the server sending
a magic message to the user-supplied 'this is my other address' and
seeing it come back from the forwarder".

Seth

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