Hi all, This is likely off-topic... but I think it's likely an interesting topic to many of the people on this list.
Like many of you, I run SpamAssassin system-wide, for thousands of users, whose privacy I have promised to uphold. Thus, we can't just go gallivanting around everyone's mailboxes to build a larger corpus of spam and ham. Our system is getting *plenty* of email to build a really beautiful corpus, upon which I could design rules which would increase our accuracy to near-100% (from 92-95% currently). The problem is, we only have sanctioned access to about 3% of the email that comes through our system, and the only time users forward email to help our filters out is when they find an uncaught spam, which doesn't help much. To make a long story short, I've been forever toying with the idea of allowing users (on a strictly voluntary basis!) to permit duly appointed employees of our company to manually scan and classify their email. In other words, I'd be asking people for permission to routinely read their mail. Technically, it's easy to implement. From a business sense, though, I definitely have reservations about something like this. Sure, it's voluntary, but even having to *ask* for something like this might well ruffle the feathers of the more conservative clients we have. Then again, many users will probably appreciate the opportunity to have us "on the case", especially since the accuracy of our filtering will improve measurably as a result. Has anyone tried anything like this? How did your clients react? Did you have better or worse luck with different wording/approaches? Any feedback would be much appreciated. If you feel this is way-OT for the list, off-list replies are fine, too. Thanks, - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901-1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-244-7037 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America
