[Declude.JunkMail] Forwarding SPAM automatically for Message Sniffer

2004-03-26 Thread Scott Fisher
I've been pondering this. I use Message Sniffer as one of my tests. I've been thinking about the possibility of forwarding all mail to Message Sniffer that has a Message Sniffer return code of 0 that also has a weight 40 (higher than the highest false positive weight I've seen). I don't know if

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Forwarding SPAM automatically for Message Sniffer

2004-03-26 Thread Matt
This is generally a bad idea because you might be blacklisting something that others don't consider spam. I've seen experiments where someone built a DNSBL blacklist from things scoring over a certain weight and this had the effect of polluting the data with his local blacklisting settings

Re: [Declude.JunkMail] Forwarding SPAM automatically for Message Sniffer

2004-03-26 Thread Pete McNeil
I just stumbled onto this thread and I can't stay (work to do with sprint)... For the record, I agree with everything Matt said here, though I might make the point a little more softly. Automated spam submissions would probably be ok as long as we knew it was coming and how it was being sourced