On 07/02, RW wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2012 12:01:32 -0700 (PDT)
> John Hardin wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
> > > http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/HandClassifiedCorpora?highlight=%28facebook%29
> > 
> > That says to not include any _spams_ received via those channels, not
> > to discard them _in toto_.
> > 
> It actually says:
> 
> 
> DO NOT include such mail in either ham or spam folder. Just delete it.
> Why? We don't want to count these as spam, causing false marks against
> highly safe whitelist rules like USER_IN_DEF_DKIM_WL. They do not count
> as ham either, because spam URL's or spam text would throw off the
> statistics if they show up in the ham folder. Simply delete them

Jari had been deleting non-spam from facebook.  As John said, that wiki
page says to not include *spam* from places like facebook.  Legit mail
from facebook, which Jari had been deleting, has value when appropriately
reported as non-spam.

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