Russ Allbery wrote: > > 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?
Some of us brought up ideas like that at the spam summit back in late April/early May, but were met mostly with blank stares in response. I didn't specificially broach the idea to AOL, so I am not referring to them. Frankly, I think it'd be a great idea. The problem is...why would an AOL-like entity need to do this? Regards, Al Iverson -- Al Iverson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Minneapolis, Minnesota My pockets hurt. http://www.spamresource.com/ Support Jazz in Minnesota! -- http://www.mnjazz.com/ All opinions are mine alone unless I state otherwise.
