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Hi Joy. In real life there are a number of problems with the idea. We tried this system with the webmail and had to turn it off. People were blacklisting the addresses of every bad mail they received and since spammers virtually never use the same addresses twice on their spam what happened was that mail was slowed to a crawl for some users checking all new mail with thousands of blacklisted addresses that would never be used again. If what you are suggesting is a report as spam button, that too has issues. We have recently seen a case where a legitimate client was driven to leave Chebucto because their mail was being maliciously and deliberately reported as spam. We have seen users using a report as spam button as a delete button so all their erased (and some legitimate) mail was skewing filter scores. We concluded that users were not sophisticated enough to reliably tag spam and only spam as spam whether through lack of knowledge or malice. We do not have enough users to balance out through numbers the actions of the misguided ones. On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Joy Mendleson wrote: > Hi - > > Do you think we will have anything like hotmail where you can Report & Delete > mail that comes to your box but you don't want it. > > If I could report the address, maybe then it would bounce the next time, and > help clean things up a little... > > Just a thought, > > Joy >
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