Steve Vance wrote:
I don't really have any authority to have this opinion, other than that I have been subscribed to this mailing list for a year and a half. But here goes.
Razor is mildly dependent on people reporting spams, but it is desperately dependent on people not reporting non-spams. There is a BIG difference. If you send in real spams, ho hum, there are lots of people doing that, but thank you for your support. But if you report one non-spam incorrectly, you are pissing in the drinking water, this is a BAD BAD BAD thing. Anyone who does so should be banished, or at least severely chastised.
If someone reports an e-mail that is just too obviously from an improper spamtrap or otherwise completely clueless user, their trust rating should INSTANTLY go down by about 1000 points or so. They are not participating constructively in the Razor community. They are not "playing by the rules". For whatever reason--we don't care why--they screwed up and submitted something that isn't spam. It doesn't matter how many spams that they have also accurately reported, we can do without their "help" for a long time, or perhaps forever! At least, that's my feeling about this topic. It's like that Dirty Harry movie, where there's a scene on a police firing range--you "shot a good guy".
This is actually off the topic of turning Razor into a censorship tool. Sorry. People can probably figure out ways to "game" the system, we will have to keep thinking up ways to thwart that. Separate topic. This is about people reporting EFF newsletters, Dilbert newsletters, things from SourceForge, CERT virus alerts, a short list of things that might not be double-opt-in, but they are Obviously Not Spam! 99% of all spams are obviously spam! If you are in doubt as to whether it might not be a spam, then don't you dare submit it!
Of course, I don't have any suggestions about how to implement the banishment idea. Perhaps Vipul and Jordan could stay up late nights looking at revokes, and pressing a "Bozo Override" button when necessary.
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