on Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 08:52:24PM -0800, Vipul Ved Prakash wrote: > David, > > The reason your reports are not reflected immediately is because you don't > have enough trust in the system. Building up trust is an important > component of a collaborative system, because it's the only mechanism that > ensures we have a clean database for all to use. As a new user, it might > be a little frustrating, but if you keep up the reporting in the long run > your decisions will be valued more (and reflected more immediately).
I've been auto-reporting via several hundred known spamtraps since August 2001. Just counting the spam I've reported, manually as well as automatically, which doesn't include the spam I autoreported but did not archive (08/2001-05/2002) I've reported something on the order of 75K individual spam messages to Razor. I've inadvertently reported non-spam on maybe three or four occasions in the eighteen months I've been using Razor, and revoked them as soon as I noticed (usually because of a network hiccup that slowed the terminal down long enough that I hit 'R', my mutt 'razor-report' macro, more than once). I should think I'd have a pretty high trust rating, but I have the same experience as David - I report a message not caught by razor from one of my servers, bounce it to the server where I archive the messages, and more often than not, it's not caught by Razor the second time, so I have to file it manually. It's gotten so ridiculous I haven't bothered to keep current or to manually report as often as I used to, and have gone back to using DNSBLs as my primary spam catching mechanism. I like the idea of Razor. I even like the implementation, for the most part. But it's not the panacea I'd hoped it would be, and it doesn't behave as I thought it should, despite my months of investment in it. Just another data point, Steve -- hesketh.com/inc. v: (919) 834-2552 f: (919) 834-2554 w: http://hesketh.com Book publishing is second only to furniture delivery in slowness. -b. schneier ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
