Re: Spam on this list
In article <[🔎] 20050901232305.GA11478@redellipse.net> pasc@redellipse.net writes:
>On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:03:26PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
>> What about using the msgid instead of the id so it would be
>> possible to use your MUA to mark a mail as spam via a script
>> which can be executed and calls the spam-report.pl script
>> just like sa-learn or something like this?
>> So it would be possible to mark mails as spam without going
>> to the website of the archive.
>
>What happens if someone fakes a message-id?
The reports need to be verified anyway, so I fail to see the problem.
Either:
the message ID exists and is unique (normal case)
the message ID does not exist (bogus/malformed report)
the message ID exists and is not unique (chances are some if not all are spam)
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