On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:06:14PM +0100, Renaud Allard wrote: > > > Ian Eiloart wrote: > > > > --On 3 November 2006 16:38:19 -0600 Mar Matthias Darin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hello, > >> Chris Lightfoot writes: > >>> no! you need to ask the recipient of the mail whether they > >>> wanted to receive it. That is the only way you can tell > >>> whether it was spam or not -- users don't typically care > >>> about idiotic conditions which ISPs try to apply to them > >>> or to other people (and rightly so). > >> If the system was set up properly to begin with, the only results you > >> should have to evaulate is what your end-user has already determined as > >> spam. Any message that is suspicious should always be tagged with a warn > >> first. > > > > Except that the holy grail of spam filtering is to save the "recipient" > > from being troubled by the spam. > > > > And further, if the spam goes into the recipient mailbox, then the > recipient receives the spam. So there is no point bothering running a > spam filter at all as all spams go where spammers want them to go.
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