This feels too abusable. We know that spammers sign up for sham
accounts at freemail services and send themselves lots of spam to
game systems that use a complaint percentage. They could easily set
up a lot of fake forwards, which feel like they'd be useful for some
kind of statistics gaming.
But the forward would only be validated for those users who validated
it, so the spammers gain only the ability to spam their own accounts.
If the ISP is counting messages, all those "forwards" with no complaints
could screw up the statistics.
address books and mailing lists, to his AOL account. Getting him to
do a magic message thing would be non-trivial.
Does he know the address of the role account? That's all he'd need.
I could him the address, but then I'd have to explain why I wanted him
to do this thing when he's already getting his mail, and then where to
find the setup page at his ISP, etc. etc. Like I said, it's
non-trivial.
(Also, the system need not work for everybody; 10% information is a
lot higher than providers get now.)
It's marginal and it's a distraction. Any suggestions on how to make
a working spam button for POP accounts?
R's,
John
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