On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Mike Smith wrote:
> I think I'm going to start applying positive scores to habeas. While I think
> the underlying idea is good, I'll have to agree with the others. I have
> NEVER received and personal mail with Habaes headers.
OK, I did a quick survey of a couple hundred inboxes on our mail server
and scanned 30,000 messages, looking for Habeas usage.
Results: (Excluding this list ;)
Spam: 5
Personal: 2
Business: 41
The telling part was the business usage. It was mostly from online
survey companys (BizRate & greenfieldonline) who want to make sure
that their messages get to their subscribers and which send messages
that tend to look "spammy".
The other commercial usage was by groups such as ZDNet and BriansBuzz.
So from this site, Habeas looks like it's doing what it's purported
to do, get "spammy" appearing messages delivered to people who
want them.
FYI, I've adjusted the HABEAS_SWE score to a -3 (so that it would
do what it's supposed to but not swamp out the spam scores for
the scumbags ;)
Dave
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