Thanks. I don't know if it's the government or just someone making a mistake. On scenereo is someone comes home from vacation and finds 1500 emails waiting of which 90% is spam. As they delete and flag it as spam the accidently hit the EFF newsletter in the middle of a group of 100 other messages.

Also - there are people out the who consider freedom to be unpatriotic who would do anything to silence the voices of those who disagree with their perspective. So - thanks for the "suck it up, freedom-boy" line.

My purpose - trying to depersonalize this - is to address the idea that there may be a better solution or improvments that can be made to prevent or at least greatly reduce the ability for this to occur.

I admit that EFF's verification system for new users is less than ideal in that someone could subscribe someone else without their approval. I would also point out that those who can block EFFs newsletter, or any other newsletter, are totally annonymous and unaccountable. If we are going to hold those who own lists to some high standard, should we not also hold those who report spam to a high standard also? For example - with Spamcop if someone complains I get an opportunity to respond and to send an email to the preson - through an unidentifiable alias - who reported it. This has happened twice and in both incidences - it was an accident.

Razor has no such accountability structure. Maybe it should?

Bob Apthorpe wrote:

Another plausible answer is that someone's intentionally gaming Razor
specifically to interfere with the EFF's newsletter. That is not so easy
to solve by the EFF without them controlling all our online behavior,
which may well be in the US Attorney General's (or the Chinese
government's, or North Korea's, or ...) mission statement, but it's
probably not in the EFF's.

The answer of 'suck it up, freedom-boy' is not terribly satisfying. If
you expect Razor to have any long-term viability as an anti-spam tool,
you'll look for a good technical or social solution to the problem of
malicious users interfering with legitimate communications by means of
Razor.







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