Yeah, but this is the overriding assumption for any display to the user: that
the user is going to do the reputation assignment.
Systems like Goodmail suggest that this assumuption is fundamentally
wrong. It puts a little flag on messages that are endorsed by a vouching
service. Webmail providers like it, the issues that Goodmail had with
Yahoo et al were about the implementation, not the idea.
Speaking as a user, I have better things to do than to do the mail
filtering that my mail system can and should be doing. Having talked to a
lot of people who run large mail systems at MAAWG and other places, I
think they agree. They use feedback from Junk buttons to tune the filters
and manage sender reputation, not to do the primary filtering.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl(_at_)iecc(_dot_)com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
Dummies",
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