On 2003-02-24 (Monday) at 03:31:21 -0500, rODbegbie wrote: > Mark Sheppard wrote: > > This is something I was wondering about a while back but never got > > round to asking - can you pre-emptively revoke messages, or does > > revoking only work once there's been submissions? > > AFAICS, You can only revoke *after* submission. > > I run a 'revoke' against all my recent ham every once in a while. Razor > throws an error 231 if the message has never been reported. > > (This makes perfect sense -- Reported spam is uploaded into Cloudmark's > servers so they can run Bayesian analysis for their "Authority" product. > They don't want their database filled with one-off items of ham as well.)
I thought that the email body only got sent with a report, not with a revoke. That's just an assumption so I guess I should RTFS for the answer. It would make sense (to me) if you could pre-emptively revoke messages to guard against false positives. Of course spammers could try to game it by pre-revoking their spam, but as long as legitimate users significantly outnumber spammers the TeS will take care of it. If revocation does send the body then Cloudmark could just discard if there's been no previous spam reports on it. Or they could keep it and run Bayesian analysis on it to help determine what constitues ham which could also be used to improve their "Authority" product. I'd have thought that pre-revocation would be a EFFective (sorry) in helping prevent legitimate newsletters getting razored. Especially if the list manager knew of a few people who automatically used razor to pre-revoke and made sure they got sent the newsletter first. Mark. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
