Re: New DNS Black list, White List, Yellow List

[Marc Perkel]

Chris Santerre wrote: Aren't we dealing with a boolean data set? Its either spam or ham. Which you train your software to look for doesn't really matter. Actually not. I look at email differently. I process 4 different grades of spam and 3 grades of ham. As to my Black/White/yellow listing there are 3 kinds of email. Ham, Spam, and yet to be determined. You pass on the ham, block the spam, and send the rest on to the next process to further evaluate it. Ultimately there are emails that end up undermined and you pass them on to the end user. But in my mind there's a big difference between a message determined to be ham and a message that fails to be determined as spam.