Crowdsourcing e-mail filtering

A system, comprising:

• a crowdsourcer stored in a memory and operable to execute on at least one processor and configured to:
• receive a data structure from an e-mail client of a community member, the data structure indicating that an e-mail received from an originator or a group associated with the originator by the community member is unwanted, wherein the data structure includes data from the community member and the e-mail;
• aggregate indicia included in the data and the e-mail in the data structure with indicia within a plurality of data structures received from e-mail clients of other community members, the plurality of data structures indicating that one or more e-mails received from the originator or the group are unwanted, wherein the aggregated indicia is based on one or more criteria;
• flag the originator or the group as a source of unwanted e-mails responsive to a determination that the aggregated indicia reaches or exceeds a threshold;
• review future e-mails, received at the crowdsourcer, to identify whether the received future e-mails are sent by the flagged originator or the group;
• and
• deny delivery of every future e-mail, from the reviewed future e-mails, identified as being sent by the flagged originator or the group to the e-mail client of the community member until a penalty period associated with the flagged originator or the group expires.

A non-transitory computer-readable device having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device, causes the at least one computing device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving, at a crowdsourcer, a data structure from an e-mail client of a community member, the data structure indicating that an e-mail received from an originator or a group associated with the originator by the community member is unwanted, wherein the data structure includes data from the community member and the e-mail;
• aggregating indicia included in the data and the email in the data structure with indicia within a plurality of data structures received from e-mail clients of other community members, the plurality of data structures indicating that one or more e-mails received from the originator or the group are unwanted, wherein the aggregated indicia is based on one or more criteria;
• flagging the originator or the group as a source of unwanted e-mails responsive to a determination that the aggregated indicia reaches or exceeds a threshold;
• reviewing future e-mails, received at the crowdsourcer, to identify whether the received future e-mails are sent by the flagged originator or the group;
• and
• denying delivery of every future e-mail, from the reviewed future e-mails, identified as being sent by the flagged originator or the group to the e-mail client of the community member until a penalty period associated with the flagged originator or the group expires.