On 22/12/2022 18:40, John Levine wrote:
It appears that Alessandro Vesely <vesely@xxxxxxx> said:
I suspect that that /designating an address/ as wanted is an ill conditioned
filter leftover from the early anti-spam filtering attempts.
It's common for spam filters to use the receipient's address book as a
sender whitelist. It's not perfect, since it also needs to deal with
situations where the sender is faked, or the real sender's account is
compromised, but it works pretty well.
With my (detested) webmail, AFAICT I do not have an address book.
Certainly I see nothing in the settings; no whitelist, no not-white list.
I imagine that the web site is assuming omniscience since when I compose
an e-mail and click on CC it comes up with a list of e-mail addresses
that are mostly wrong but are ones that have appeared as senders on the
WG list.
I wonder if RFC announcements are being treated as spam because I have
not sent any e-mails to IETF Announce lately. I might try that (with
apologies to the administrators for doing what I do not have the
authority to do).
Tom Petch
If they were, users would be designating
a signing domain or an emitting domain, not an email address, as wanted.
I doubt that one mail user in 10,000 has any idea what a signing domain or
an envelope address is. Not gonna happen.
R's,
John
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