> I've just been cleaning up a list that I administer and suddenly it came to
> me that we could have a report Scam/Spam button for such items being sent to
> Mailman lists. 

Where would you have this button? In the admindb interface? In the post
itself somewhere?

> Would this be feasible? I know gmail has such a feature - I don't quite know
> the process it follows once it is reported.

Ay. There's the rub. To whom would it be reported, and what might they
do with it once reported?

> Where I see the biggest advantage of this is that individual mail users are
> not going to / seldom do go to the trouble of reporting because it is too
> much trouble. Do be able to do so at the click of a button, would
> exponentially increase the number of senders being reported. 

Yes, but as with all distributed effort spam control measures, who is
going to police the mob-ocracy?

A good idea, to be sure. But there remain many sticky details to iron
out.

-jag


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Joshua Ginsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Free Software Foundation - Senior Systems Administrator

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