Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs

Ian Eiloart <iane@sussex.ac.uk> Mon, 01 February 2010 10:56 UTC

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--On 29 January 2010 19:45:29 +0100 Alessandro Vesely <vesely@tana.it> 
wrote:

>
> IMHO it is more important to focus on _how_ and _where_, the answers
> being, respectively, ARF and abuse@<authserv-id>, where the latter is
> defined in http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5451#section-2.3 Note that users
> have to configure their clients specifying which authserv-id they trust
> for each account. This stone can kill both birds.

Except that that isn't, I presume, the way these buttons currently work - 
except when somebody is subscribed to a feedback loop. It seems 
over-complicated and inefficient (even with BURL) to send an ARF to your 
own system admin, and rather more simple to just set a flag or annotation 
on the IMAP server.

Apart from that, a standard way of telling the server side spam filter that 
it's made a mistake would be useful.

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Ian Eiloart
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