Re: [Asrg] Adding a spam button to MUAs

Ian Eiloart <iane@sussex.ac.uk> Wed, 09 December 2009 11:56 UTC

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--On 9 December 2009 01:31:36 -0500 Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> 
wrote:

>
> Feedback is going to be controversial in this group.
>
> The first thing I would like to see was for email clients to
> automatically include headers for all mail forwarded to "postmaster" or
> "abuse". I have never gotten a complaint about incoming spam mail that
> included headers and it is generally difficult to instruct users, given
> the multiplicity of clients.
>
> Daniel Feenberg

That would make my life so much easier. Except in the quite common case 
when someone reports an email to an intermediary who doesn't use the 
postmaster address, or reports it to me at my personal address.

I quite like the idea of having the server add a "Report-Abuse" header, 
which would usually contain an email or web address. The client could make 
a POST report through a web form to a database, or forward the email with 
fill headers.  With a suitable AppleScript, it's feasible that we could 
already do this with Mail.app - given that we distribute customised OSX 
images.


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