[Asrg] FeedBack loops

Rich Kulawiec rsk at gsp.org
Thu Nov 13 17:52:32 PST 2008


On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:02:14AM +1200, Franck Martin wrote:
> We were talking about: "when the user click spam, the system does not send a spam report but an unsubscribe if the mail contains the right headers and the unsubscribe is successful" 

First, there's no way for the web interface to know if the unsubscription
request was successful -- presuming that it's submitted via the address
specified in the RFC 2369 headers.

But second, and this is the much larger problem: widespread adoption of
this will almost instantly lead to its mass exploitation by spammers.

---Rsk


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