On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 12:52:45PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 20:59 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 11:54 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > Could this not be automated in the footer link, e.g. by including
> > the Message-ID?
>
> Technically you could automate it in a variety of ways. e.g. Each
> message through the list gets a "report me" link added to it with a
> their unique ID in the link. Or, you forward an entire message
> (headers and all) to an automatic assessor.
>
> However, you would need some double-checks to stop miscreants
> deliberately abusing the system by falsely reporting normal messages.
> The simplest one being that a certain number of people would have to
> report the same post to get past a threshold.
Yes, that would make sense. And presumably some sort of check against
list membership.
Every post has a
Archived-At:
header that provides a link to that exact message in the archives.
That can be provided to identify the message.
kevin