I wish I had python experience because I would love to contribute. Anyway I understand that there are reasons that this is not part of spambayes. I just think it would really help moving forward as the velocity of spam starts to make you say to yourself - "why hasn't he emailed me... did I miss his email in my junk folder?". This occurs quite a lot these days for me and I was thinking that this could be a solution that really boosts the integrity of the application.
And to the argument that some spammers will use known names, if this feature is configurable you don't have to use it. Perhaps the whitelisting can be weighted as HAM also all the way up to 100%. Anyway - thanks for considering it. -----Original Message----- From: Tony Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 9:05 PM To: Bryan D. Andrews Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Feature Request > I definitely think this is subjective and I think > the FAQ says it best... FAQ 6.6, I presume: <http://spambayes.org/faq.html#why-don-t-you-add-whitelisting-blacklisti ng-t o-spambayes> Note that, as the FAQ says, it's not difficult to setup your own whitelist in pretty much any mail client, including Outlook. > Anyway, whether or not this feature would be used by > everyone, it would be a great addition. [...] > I am pretty active in the development community [...] This sounds like a perfect opportunity to scratch an itch to me <0.5 wink>. Seriously, if "active" is active as a developer, then we'd be happy to accept patches that implement whitelisting in the Outlook plug-in (to quiet the incessant requests for it, if nothing else). The FAQ has links to comments about the potential issues with implementation, if you are interested. =Tony.Meyer -- Please always include the list (spambayes at python.org) in your replies (reply-all), and please don't send me personal mail about SpamBayes. http://www.massey.ac.nz/~tameyer/writing/reply_all.html explains this. _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
