Hello,
I thought that some of you would like to know that I just posted this
design proposal for an anti-spam add-on to Mozilla Mail/News in
news:news.mozdev.org/public.mozdev.mozspam .
Like I just realized about the existence of this news groups (also
available as mailing list with Web archive), I think some of you would
like to follow up there.
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Regards,
Manuel Lemos
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Hello,
Regardless if and how this could be implemented here follows a summary
of how I think it should work.
Most of e-mail anti-spam systems filter messages on the mail server side
but that is no good to me because most of them use rules that are too
generic and often confuse messages that you want to receive with real
spam, even if those messages would be considered as spam by others.
So what I propose should work this way:
- Operation should be split in two parts: filtering and action.
- Filtering is determines if a messages is considered to be spam, not
spam or maybe. Besides the usual rules for filtering, there should be a
way to add more methods to figure if a message is spam/not/maybe. This
should allow the addition of plugins, maybe using Javascript to query
remote knowledge anti-spam knowledge bases like Razor's.
- Action should be a list of known actions to apply in each of the three
situations that the filtering part determined. There should be the
possibility to add more actions, maybe using Javascript plugins.
Built-in actions could be: delete message, move message to a standard
folders to be named like "spam" and "maybe spam", leave message in in
inbox flagging properly, report possible spam to existing knowledge
bases. All actions should have an additional property that would tell if
they should be executed auto-matically or ask the user first.
- Users should have a way to specify exception rules that would override
automatic actions associated to some filters, like those that query
remote spam knowledge bases, so users can override the decision that
others made that some types of message are to be considered spam but
they disagree.
I could detail this more, but for now it should be enough to kickoff a
healthy discussion on what should be a useful Mozilla based anti-spam
extension.
Regards,
Manuel Lemos
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