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Re: [Asrg] Passive Spam Revocation

Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> Mon, 26 October 2009 09:43 UTC

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From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 12:45:12PM +0800, Yao Ziyuan wrote:
> The main idea is if a message is considered spam, this spam status
> can be tracked by the sender (but not sent to him directly, as the From
> field can be faked). 

Providing useful intelligence about (a particular site's) spam filters
to spammers is a seriously bad idea.

---Rsk

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