On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 07:47 -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
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.
That's helpful.
poc