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Mike Richardson wrote:
> I personally don't like the idea of content filtering on the hubs because
> a) users have no control over what test are done and for what.
Not true. One doesn't have to make it a blanket reject.
> b) users have no control over the threshold we pick for them
Not true. Again, one doesn't need to make it a blanket reject.
> c) we can't teach the system what individuals class as spam
Not true. There are methods to collect such data from the users.
> d) false positives happen
While this is true the highest I've seen is 5.6. I reject at 8. If
you're worried, set the reject threshold higher and pass it on tagged. I
doubt you'd ever see a false positive at 10 or so (esp. with Bayesian turned
on) and even if you did it would be so extremely rare that it is worth the
loss (thousandths of a percent if not millionths of a percent).
> e) there is a move to stop tagging and start rejecting 'for the good of
> everyone'.
Which is far preferred to the movement towards C-R and other systems
which severely break how mail is supposed to work.
> Mix all these together and you have censorship with no ability to
> opt out.
Not true. Whitelists exist. Give the users the ability to add their
name to it.
> I know that some of the above could be fixed but we really don't have
> the time or effort to do the work necessary on the exim config etc.
It has little to do with exim configurations and a whole lot to do with
Spamassassin configuration.
> Desktop tools return the control to the users.
Most desktop users don't know what to do with that control. It is far
easier to reject the blatent cases, tag the marginal and tell them to filter
on a single header than it is to try to educate the masses on proper email
management. If given the choice of setting up Spamassassin (or spamprobe, or
spambayes) versus a C-R style system most will set up the C-R system because
it is far easier for them to set-up and maintain.
Sensible defaults with the ability for the end user to opt-out is not
censorship; it is being responsible and realistic about the capabilities of
the average user.
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