[Asrg] FeedBack loops

[J.D. Falk]

On 12/11/2008 05:45, "Rich Kulawiec" <rsk at gsp.org> wrote:

> Incidentally, I recently concluded an analysis of nearly 5 years worth of
> feedback loop traffic from AOL.  (Which is the first one I started using
> on a site of appreciable volume.)  This analysis, partially automated
> and partially manual, arrived at the following interesting conclusion:
> the FP rate is 100.000%.  Every single feedback loop report identifying
> traffic as spam was wrong.

That just means you aren't sending what you'd consider to be spam.

If a statistically valid sample of an ISP's users (as processed by their own
user reputation systems) think something is spam, why would that ISP
disagree?

I know it's a big shift in thinking from the classic anti-spammer attitude,
particularly the pornography test (I know it when I see it.)  But, it's a
shift that all of the big ISPs have already made: they'll listen to their
users before they'll listen to random external parties.