From: Michael Bruschkewitz Date: 2009-06-08T16:50:10+09:00 Subject: Re: SPAM from Usenet "Aaron Turner" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:1ca1c1410906071610v24100474r72d993b900cdc020@mail.gmail.com... >You're ignoring the mailing list- most mail clients can't delete an >entire thread based on a single message via rules. I know Gmail and >Mail.app can't. It also creates a situation ripe for abuse since now >anyone can delete entire threads. To be honest, I don't know much about mail clients today. Some years ago, I was eager to check out every mail client, but these were the times when 1 hour of internet access did cost 6 Deutschmark. Because I don't want to fiddle about installing mail clients on every machine I use - I now use just the default client for the current OS or just the first which comes across. IMHO, Gravity would have had absolutely no problem setting up such a rule but probably would not be abel to handle mailing list. Forte Agent too. So I was expecting current mail clients would provide this for mailing lists too. At least ML-clients should provide the possibility to hide a message based on topic, so it would be easy for users of such clients to drop the additional messages. The abuse issue may be resolved easily, although I don't expect it would occur frequently. I wrote "some responsible persons could mark the thread" - the thread-muting rule just needs to depend on sender _and_ topic, or those persons use a particular name for kill-posts, for example "Aaron Spamkilla Turner". So spamkillers could be easily whitelisted. How to do this could be an one-liner in the content of each spamkiller-message. Additional, an [THATS NOT SPAM] message could be added to deal with wrong spamkiller-messages, maybe somebody marks a thread by mistake. I wouldn't expect spam problem to be resolved by some free-wheeling ideas in the night, so I dont expect my idea was perfect - it was just an idea. If it would be so easy to kill all spam w/o flaws, it would be already done years before. Regards, Michael B.