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Re: controlling spam via mail interface?



On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 08:06:29PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 07:47:18PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> > 
> > And yes, I expect that all messages reported will need to be manually 
> > reviewed to avoid deleting good mails from the archive.
> 
> It would be cool if we could create a spam-reporting alias similar to what
> Spamcop does that would make it easy to report through e-mail (in Mutt
> I have a shortcut to do just that). To prevent abuse, and to make it work in 
> a more semi-automatic way, maybe it could allow only GPG signed mails from 
> developers and work only if more than two developers reported the same 
> Message-ID. 
> 
> The problem with the web interface is that it lacks authentication, so you
> cannot "trust me" more than you can trust average joe even though I've make
> every effort to report only legitimate spam (something "average Joe" might
> not do). If the spam reporting tool where to be developed through a mail
> interface with GPG that would make automatic fixing of archives easier. 
> It could also allow reporting spam to the BTS easier too.
> 
> Just my few cents.
> 

I like.

regards

Andrew

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