I can't speak about the specifics of this particular change, but
anything that makes it harder to trivially forward a message,
Whilst I obviously can't argue with you in the context of making it easy
to report spam, there are a couple of things to point out.
First, Jo said "have removed all functionality", that is technically and
factually incorrect, which is why I posted the message I did. Other
methods remain available and all that needs to be done is for Jo to
update the instructions to users.
Second, I'm becoming less and less of a buyer on the whole "report it to
the ISP" malarky. Its starting to become a bit of a 1990's way of doing
it. I increasingly find myself wondering whether ISPs actually bother
to read abuse mails or whether they get filtered straight to /dev/null.
Case in point on number two, for some months now I have been receving
Spam originating from a Verizon customer. The Verizon customer appears
to be some sort of marketing company that has a range on the Verizon
network.
Every...single...time... I report the spam, full headers & all. Have
they done anything about it ? No. Has the volume of spam reduced ? No.
I ended up blocking that IP in a custom RBL that I feed into SpamAssassin.
Sure, I guess for tweaking your internal SpamAssassin implementation,
headers could be useful. But for external reporting, I think they've
had their day.
