It has been argued somewhere that auto-reporting SpamAssassin tagged messages just turns Razor into a SpamAssassin mirror. I agree. If people want SpamAssassin, let them install it. Don't stuff it down their throat. Please only report messages a human has looked at.
Thanks, Jeffrey Quoting John J. Stimson-III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > From: "Bill Sobel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:06:54 -0700 > > Subject: [Razor-users] Whats with all the mailing lists being submitted to Razor? > > > > I've started to notice more and more legitimate opt in mailing lists are > > being wrongly submitted to Razor by users. Today I noticed both the > > Dilbert mailing list and the Vuln-Dev list had mailed caught be Razor. > > > > Is this a reflection of too many people using old addresses as > > SpamTraps, or people too lazy to unsubscribe to a message reporting it > > as spam? (I realize that is a bit of a rhetorical question). > > Ironically, the very issue of the razor-users digest that contained > the message above was tagged as spam by razor. > > I suspect that there are some folks who are funneling non-verified or > low-threshold SpamAssassin output into razor-report. If you're using > SpamAssassin, please raise your threshold for reporting to Razor to at > *least* 15 points (I still get false positives even in my 15-point > box), or verify the messages yourself before reporting them, or just > don't auto-report. All you are doing by reporting unverified spam is > making more work for others and eroding your own confidence rating. > > I have been using the revoke feature, but it could stand to work > faster. I think I have revoked false positives from the > Merriam-Webster word of the day list three times, and I am not sure > yet if they are coming through. > > And please don't use Razor as a means of removing yourself from > an opt-in mailing list that you are too lazy to figure out how to > unsubscribe from. > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4729346;7592162;s?http://www.sun.com/javavote _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
