Privicons and redaction
Alessandro Vesely <[email protected]> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:18:22 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.rfc822 |
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In abuse reporting, an established albeit discouraged practice consists of redacting reported messages. In a nutshell, users may have the ability to signal some received messages as being abusive. Their mailbox providers should then wrap those messages according to abuse reporting format (ARF, RFC 5965) and send them back to the senders if they had subscribed to the relevant feedback loop. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback_loop_%28email%29 Redaction conceals the recipient, rather than the sender. In this case, authors should markup the parts of the messages that contain sensible data, in case the recipients report those messages as spam, possibly inadvertently. A document describing how to carry out redaction is now in LC, so it can hardly mention privicons. However, privicons could consider this possible use. The redaction doc is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-marf-redaction/ For casual readers, privicons are defined here: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-koenig-privicons