Re: [Asrg] Summary of junk button discussion

--On 25 February 2010 05:45:46 +0000 John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:

>>> I find it too restrictive to call this a "junk button" as this mechanism
>>> can be used more widely than just this way.
>>
>> Ah, well that's a different question. This particular discussion is
>> about  how to get reports from the user to the administrator of the
>> system. How  the user triggers the report is an exercise for the MUA
>> programmers, but  we've been thinking that it's likely to be a button
>> labelled "junk".
>
> Having talked to a fair number of ISPs who provide junk buttons, none of
> them thought that more buttons would help.  Users don't distinguish among
> all the reasons they might not want a message, and asking them to do so
> is more likely to get random answers or no answers than good ones.

Well, maybe that's true. But have you talked to Twitter, or anyone else who 
has actually tried it. I haven't, but Twitter do provide two buttons: one 
to block and one to report. It's not exactly the same, but it's there.

Apart from that, we're not actually creating these buttons, are we? We're 
defining a reporting mechanism. My view is that it's better to have a 
richer vocabulary defined, and allow implementers to chose which parts to 
use.

In fact, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation (well, I 
wouldn't!) if a few more IMAP flags had been provided for these purposes.

> The only think other than a junk button that appears useful is a
> not-junk button to display when looking at stuff in a junk folder.

>  I suppose we could do that, but then we'd have to define what a junk
> folder is.  Or if we do this with a header applied by the MDA, it could
> have a flag hinting which way the junk flag is set now.
>
> R's,
> John
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