On 02/Mar/10 15:55, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
The primary beneficiaries of a standardized, widely-deployed mechanism
for a report-as-spam-button are spammers/abusers: they will own it
the moment they choose and will do whatever they want with it -- which is
unlikely to be good for us *whether we're using such a mechanism or not*.
Would that assertion still hold, in your opinion, if
"report-as-spam-button" is replaced by "abuse-reporting-address"?
I *strongly* recommend your attention to the discussion several years
ago on spam-l of the consequences of Verizon's choice to use outbound
SAV, wherein we all (well, maybe not "all", but those who were paying
attention) got a painful object lesson in how spammers will quickly
notice, study and employ ill-considered methodologies to their advantage.
There are some instructive points about that experience that directly
apply here -- and which should give considerable pause to anyone familar
with them.
What is the similarity between SAV or similar "callback" mechanisms
and reporting something as spam?
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