On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, 12:12pm (-0600), Bob Proulx wrote:
People will instead on their own "improve the system" by submitting machine catagorized spam even though that it is specifically stated not to do that. Sigh. Is it because they are just too stupid to be a contributing part of the community at large?
I think it's more like people speeding on the Interstate. It's not that they're stupid (or hardened criminals), it's just that they view the rule (or law) as a pointless impediment to getting the job done (filtering spam vs. getting somewhere).
After all, who wants to have to read all that damned spam (and we're not talking about 5 or 6 messages a day here, either) when you've got this nifty tool that can read it, categorize it, delete it, AND report it without you having to even bother with it?
I confess that I automate my spam submittals.
However I haven't missed more than 1 in 5000.
SpamAssassin has one limitation with respect to reporting spam. It doesn't have a "grey" area.
Admitting that I'm biased here, bogofilter provides a ternary system of Yes, No, Maybe. You can tune this thing in a variety of ways, but the advantage that bogofilter has over SpamAssassin is that I can choose to not report the Unsure mail until I have looked at it. This accounts to something like:
500 emails received
300 are spam and reported correctly
1 might be Unsure (average 2 a week) and I have to manually view it
199 are not spam and are not reported correctly.
This does allow me to automate reporting, but at the same time keeps a high degree of quality to the input that I provide. Without the quality, my submittals would be considered questionable and may not contribute as effectively to the problem of capturing spam.
If SpamAssassin had a "grey" or Unsure area, it would go a long ways to improving the quality of information going into razor. But I'm on the wrong list for that.
However, I don't think automated submittals is bad. But a lot of people do it poorly.
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