Re: [Asrg] Summary/outline of why the junk button idea is pre-failed

[Barry Shein <[e-mail]>]

On March 2, 2010 at 14:12 [e-mail] (BOBOTEK, ALEX (ATTLABS)) wrote:
 > +1
 > 
 > Is there not enough of a plurality convinced of
 > 
 > * the benefits of reporting and
 > * the benefit of interoperability resulting from standardizing reporting
 > 
 > to proceed with standardizing abuse reporting?  
 > 

I tend to suspect that the potential benefits outweigh the drawbacks
which seem to fall into the range of "maybe useless" to "maybe mildly
annoying" to someone (e.g., an unsub magnet, which could be handled
better automatically.)

In contrast I was a critic of SPF, e.g., very early on because both
sides had to play, and it seemed like it just wouldn't accomplish very
much, if anything. The best DKIM proponents could come up with were
these mythical "reputation systems", usually in response to "why
wouldn't spammers just DKIM?", yet were advocating mandatory
implementation (well, implement or we won't accept your email, at
least in the beginning.)

This strikes me more like VERP in impact, if you want to play, then
play, if not, fine, the value to you (for large sets of "you") has to
be self-evident or else feel free to ignore it.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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