On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 07:08:07PM +0000, Edward B. Dreger wrote: [...]
On the cynical side: Has anyone considered an "inverted" blacklist -- i.e., a _destination_-based mail blocking mechanism? Rejecting mail to parties with excessive bogus complaint rates certainly might simplify life for those tasked with handling "abuse" incidents. ;-)
It's interesting that you should ask that today. A few days ago we started throwing around an idea along these lines: - N = # of bogus abuse/spam reports for a given destination - X = # of reports where we stop delivering mail to a given destination - for 0 < N < X -- deliver the mail, but also inform the sender that the destination address has reported spam/abuse coming from our network, and that if it continues, we won't deliver mail to that destination anymore. - for N > X -- tell the sender that we aren't delivering the mail because it is likely to get us put on a blacklist. We haven't fleshed things out completely, because we're not sure the cure is better than the disease yet... -- John Osmon