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, [email protected], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. http://jl.ly
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