Re: dmarc damage, was gmail users read on... [bozo subtopic]

Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> Sat, 20 September 2014 10:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: dmarc damage, was gmail users read on... [bozo subtopic]
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On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 12:29:15PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
> The best model to invoke, with respect to the idea of recruiting end
> users to be active participants in abuse detection or prevention is
> mostly:
> 
>   Don't.

Yes, a thousand times yes.  Users (as a whole) have spent the past
several decades conclusively proving beyond any possible argument that
they should not be, in ANY way, involved in this process. [1]

---rsk

[1] Unless every action they take is manually reviewed by someone with
appropriate expertise.  This of course has its own issues; notably, it
doesn't scale well and it raises substantial privacy and security issues.