Re: Summary of Issues Raised to date

David Harris wrote:
> Perhaps it would be appropriate to reiterate the primary goal of this 
> group, as defined on the ASRG web site:
> 
>     1: Investigate the requirements for a common header to be 
>     produced by filters (something like "Filtered-By"), so MUAs do 
>     not have to look for different types of headers
> 
> This seems like a very simple, achievable goal to me, but the recent 
> threads on this list seem to me to have lost sight of it. A lot of the 
> discussion going on at present seems to be in the form of ideas that 
> grow legs and rush off into the undergrowth to battle demons.
> 
> I hate to be the one who suggests a lowest-common-denominator 
> approach to a problem, but I really think that's what we need to be doing 
> here. Instead of trying to solve *all* the header-related problems we can 
> think of, why not start off with the simplest thing we think we might 
> actually be able to achieve and build on that?
> 

The questions is - what should be included in such header. And this is 
where all the problems start :) Can we perhaps try to narrow down the 
question of what should be included in such header and what role such 
header would play?

A side point this leads into is a more general question of MTA/MUA 
interaction. Some people would really like to have an ability to have a 
"this is spam" button in the MUA which will feed back to the MTA. Or the 
MTA letting the MUA know that some of the previous messages delivered 
should be considered spam. All of this stuff sounds like far fetched but 
then again this is a research group :)

All of this is my personal opinion.

Yakov