Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Wouldn't help.

> 90% or more of the spam complaints I see come when users see a mailbox
> full of spam, select everything in the mailbox in frustration, and
> report everything as spam in bulk. They aren't even opening the
> messages. It's a frustration reaction caused by AOL's absolute inability
> to really dent the amount of spam that gets into their mailboxes.

I think it might help this problem somewhat, although not alieviate it
entirely of course, for AOL's spam report button to look at the message
and if it has a List-Unsubscribe header, to try mailing that first.
They'd have to keep a blacklist of spammers who abused that header, or
automatically generate such a list from those spams that someone reported
and then received again with the same List-Unsubscribe header, but it
might be pretty effective.

If the users are going to use the spam button as an unsubscribe button,
why not make it exactly that?

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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