Forwarding emails without false positivesSeptember 14, 2009
Here is a modest suggestion for email clients: when you forward a
message, you should put some marker of this at the front of the
(Some but not all clients do this today.) Many anti-spam systems that I've seen put a spam status marker at the
start of the (Also, there is the whole tradition of putting 'Re:' at the start of the subject line for replies.) Now suppose one of your users forwards a spam-tagged message. This
forwarded message is not itself spam (the obvious example is 'dear
system staff, why did this get classified as spam?'), but if your client
leaves the start of the (Having written this I have to admit that my mail client currently isn't set up this way. I should fix that, but there always seem to be more important things to do than fiddle with the guts of my MUA environment, which is somewhat baroque.) |
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