Noel,

I agree with you about the blocking.  I don't use it myself, just tagging.

One of the options is to include the spamminess probability in a message
header.  So changing this to being in a Mail attribute is trivial.

-Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel J. Bergman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 2:49 PM
> To: James Users List
> Subject: RE: Spam filtering mailets wanted...
>
>
> > The advantage of putting this code on the server side is so that ALL
> clients
> > can benefit from the SPAM blocking, and you "can"
> > avoid the client even having to see the junk email
>
> Mind you, spam BLOCKING, as opposed to tagging, can be a bit of an issue
> unless you are really sure that it is spam.  As you noted, it
> might be best
> to X-tag the spam and deliver it to the user.  It might be interesting to
> play with the Bayesian filter and "confidence" levels:
>
>    >H     spam bucket
>    L< >H  spam tag
>    <L     not spam
>
> When we have Mail attributes, I'd like to see internal flow controlled by
> attributes more than headers (not counting externally generated ones, of
> course).  The Bayesian filter could attach an attribute, other matchers
> could select based upon the attribute, and a separate Mailet would support
> converting attributes to X- headers.
>
>       --- Noel
>
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