Re: Dealing w/ poor network citizens like Yahoo! - Solution?

[Marc Perkel <ma...@perkel.com>]

For what it's worth, what would be nice is if yahoo had some kind of 
automated complaint mailbox so that if complaints about a particular 
account were coming in at a high rate it would disable the account. Same 
for Hotmail, Gmail, and other free mailers.

If automated complaint features were standard we could fix a lot of spam.

Re: Dealing w/ poor network citizens like Yahoo! - Solution?

[Benny Pedersen <me...@junc.org>]

On Fri, April 20, 2007 01:25, Marc Perkel wrote:
> For what it's worth, what would be nice is if yahoo had some kind of
> automated complaint mailbox so that if complaints about a particular
> account were coming in at a high rate it would disable the account. Same
> for Hotmail, Gmail, and other free mailers.
>
> If automated complaint features were standard we could fix a lot of spam.

just make a sender_bcc *@yahoo.com abuse@yahoo.com :-)

if you want to complain send complete header and body no attachments to this
email

abuse@ is working atleast for there yahoogroups maillists, don't know if there
is problems with dialup spammers :(

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Re: Dealing w/ poor network citizens like Yahoo! - Solution?

[Marc Perkel <ma...@perkel.com>]

Kelson wrote:
> Aggh.  I think Thunderbird 2 changed the menu layout a bit.  I hit 
> "Reply to Sender" instead of "Reply to All."
>
> Marc Perkel wrote:
>> For what it's worth, what would be nice is if yahoo had some kind of 
>> automated complaint mailbox so that if complaints about a particular 
>> account were coming in at a high rate it would disable the account. 
>> Same for Hotmail, Gmail, and other free mailers.
>>
>> If automated complaint features were standard we could fix a lot of 
>> spam.
>
> Sure... until spammer-pwned botnets start sending hundreds of complaints
> about the addresses of spamfighters, getting their ISPs to disable their
> accounts automatically.
>
> Sorry, that one's just too easy to abuse.
>

But perhaps with domain keys or some other encoding trick they could 
verify that the forwarded emails were authentic. I think it would be doable.

Re: Dealing w/ poor network citizens like Yahoo! - Solution?

[Kelson <ke...@speed.net>]

Aggh.  I think Thunderbird 2 changed the menu layout a bit.  I hit 
"Reply to Sender" instead of "Reply to All."

Marc Perkel wrote:
> For what it's worth, what would be nice is if yahoo had some kind of 
> automated complaint mailbox so that if complaints about a particular 
> account were coming in at a high rate it would disable the account. Same 
> for Hotmail, Gmail, and other free mailers.
> 
> If automated complaint features were standard we could fix a lot of spam.

Sure... until spammer-pwned botnets start sending hundreds of complaints
about the addresses of spamfighters, getting their ISPs to disable their
accounts automatically.

Sorry, that one's just too easy to abuse.

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Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>