On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, WJCarpenter wrote:
> I can see how there's not much motivation for allowing users to freeze
> messages, but what's the danger in allowing users to fail messages?
> Is this a philosophical position ("admins rule!"), a technical
> limitation ("if you allow that, there are certain mumbles that are
> very hard to detect and overcome"), or middle ground ("many users
> don't know what the heck they're doing and will embarass themselves or
> the entire domain if they try using this feature")?
The latter, I think. I suspect I was being cautious.
> If a user wants to fail a message with a SpamAssassin score of 114 or
> more, why shouldn't I let them?
Well, in that instance, they would do much better to discard the
message. Using :fail: would create a bounce, which, as we all now know,
is a Bad Thing to do when handling spam.
Perhaps my caution was justified...
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