On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:55:34AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > The key issue here is that the mail isn't blocked. It's simply held in > another place until confirmed. It doesn't become a "false positive" until it > is deleted without being read.
It depends how you define the SPAM checking process. If you define the SPAM checking process as "an automatic process which classifies mail as either SPAM or non SPAM", then your statement is incorrect, it is a false postive as soon as it has been automatically classified in the wrong group. However, you seem to be defining the SPAM checking process as "a series of automatic and manual processes that automatically delete all SPAM and nothing else from your mail folder". Which is interesting, the first definition doesn't take into account the human reading the mail, the second does. However, as far as I am concerned, my ideal (as unrealistic as it may be) is not to have to look at SPAM at all, which means that I use the first definition. -- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>