On Saturday, February 04, 2012 10:07:19 PM Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> > Shmuel Metz Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2012 3:26 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [marf] Working Group Last Call on draft-ietf-marf-as-05
> > 
> > >Probably, yes - while on the modern net it would probably make much
> > >more sense to centralize most the processing and decision making,
> > 
> > I agree, but in the short run there will continue to be providers that
> > don't provide that function.
> > 
> > >I think anyone developing an MUA to do that sort of thing would either
> > >deeply understand this document and read it from an appropriate
> > >perspective, or not understand it and need to be restrained from doing
> > >anything along these lines.
> > 
> > The refusal of, e.g., yahoo, to accept plain text complaints provides
> > an incentive for MUA authors to write such tools. Given the number of
> > e-mail clients that are broken in one way or another, I'd rather see
> > some guidance in an RFC before the avalanche starts. Restraining the
> > MUA authors is not feasible.
> 
> What do others think about this point?  Given the number of direct
> complaints John, Yakov and I got from Yahoo members when Yahoo decided to
> accept only ARF reports, it seems like we might be able to say we have
> experience that this creates a big problem for a lot of people.  And it's
> true that software to generate ARFs will start appearing, if it hasn't
> already.
> 
> That said, I don't think we need to talk specifically about MUAs sending
> abuse reports.  It seems to me any advice we have for them is the same as
> the advice we're already giving to report generators.  Why would it be any
> different?

I don't think it would be different.

Scott K
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