Ian Eiloart wrote:
That must depend a lot on the interface that they have. With the mail
client I have currently, there's no way to know how to report spam. If
the client had a "report as spam" button, then I'll bet the reporting
rate would go up.
I get a much lower than 1% reporting rate, except when it comes to
spear phishing, where the rate is a bit better than 1%, even though
people have to find out how to do the reporting.
Also, about 90% of the reports I get include minimal headers, so
they're not very useful.
Yet just about everybody has a junk button. Typically it feeds into some
baysian stuff right now.
There's no reason that in the back end of the mua it couldn't send
reports somehow, like, say,
an extension to imap or something like that. And then do what Nathaniel
was saying: treat the
junk button as a "I don't want" button and figure out what that really
means for the filters.
And it's not like this sort of thing is anything new anyway: lots of
vendors have "report as
spam" widgets that get bolted onto the side of your favorite MUA. A
little standardization
would be nice though as it would decouple that UI hassle from the actual
job of filtering.
Mike
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