Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 10:05:29AM +1000,
> Adam Goryachev <mailinglists@websitemanagers.com.au> is thought to have said:
>
>
>>>Now I get some opt-in mail which looks to me like
>>>spam.  I hit "this is spam".  My trust rating plummets --
>>
>>Good! Your opinion of what is spam is unreliable, and therefore, I don't
>>*want* to trust you. IMHO, that is exactly the case that the trust system is
>>supposed to sort out. People who incorrectly submit non-spam bulk mail to
>>razor.
>
>
> Let's take a look at an example here. Someone on this list signed
> razor-users@fsckit.net up to a ZDNet mailing list that doesn't confirm
> subscriptions in a piss-poor attempt to mailbomb me. I report all of these
> mailings to Razor because, guess what, for me this is spam. This and a
> hundred more traditional spam emails to automated spamtrap addresses get
> reported by me daily. I probably have a decent TES value because of all of
> this.
>
> Now lets say someone else who is also reporting a fair amount of your
> typical proxy/relayed spam has been reporting these and has built up a
> decent TES rating because of it. However they subscribed to that same ZDNet
> list and enjoy getting the mail from it except that they don't like seeing
> it tagged as spam by Razor. So they razor-revoke it.
>
> Who loses in this case? Why? Neither party is inaccurate in their actions
> IMO. But someone's standing is going to get hurt because of it.
Actually you would be inaccurate in your action in a way. The correct
behavior would be to unsubscribe razor-users@fsckit.net from the mailing
list.
But in any case, you have to understand that you and him would not be
the only one involved. As I said in a another thread, you probably get
hurt only if you are against the majority of people (which makes sense).
If you are with the majority, you get a bonus (which also makes sense).
If there is no majority, nobody wins or lose.
Razor is designed for the betterment of most people, i.e. the majority,
not for the individual. If one doesn't agree with the majority, he
should use the razor-whitelist or create a blacklist (BTW, why doesn't
razor provide a razor-blacklist too?)
Jehan
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