Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs

Seth <sethb@panix.com> Thu, 10 December 2009 18:16 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs
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Skull <skull@bofhland.org> wrote:
>On 12/10/09 6:39 AM, Seth wrote:

>> Problem: if the ISP gets the report and doesn't know that the
>> forwarder is legitimate, it will damage the reputation of the
>> forwarder.
>
> This is obvious, but it's up to the ISP preventing this. Once they have
> the message with full headers, he's expected to see what's inside it and
> which path it took to reach his network, not only look at the last hop
> and fire...
>
> Expecting to find a techincal solution to let *end users* correct their
> ISPs misbehaviour doesn't seem a good path to me...

Who else can do it?  Whatever headers a legitimate forwarder sends, a
spammer can fake exactly; the only difference is the connecting IP
address.

Seth