Re: [exim] DynaStop - It works for me.

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Author: Ian Eiloart
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To: Mar Matthias Darin, exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] DynaStop - It works for me.


--On 3 November 2006 16:38:19 -0600 Mar Matthias Darin <BDarin@???>
wrote:

> Hello,
> Chris Lightfoot writes:
>> no! you need to ask the recipient of the mail whether they
>> wanted to receive it. That is the only way you can tell
>> whether it was spam or not -- users don't typically care
>> about idiotic conditions which ISPs try to apply to them
>> or to other people (and rightly so).
>
> If the system was set up properly to begin with, the only results you
> should have to evaulate is what your end-user has already determined as
> spam. Any message that is suspicious should always be tagged with a warn
> first.


Except that the holy grail of spam filtering is to save the "recipient"
from being troubled by the spam.

> Then it goes to the user. Finally, the user responds with a this
> is spam or not spam.
> Once the message has been identified as spam by the user, there should be
> no further need for the user to continually identify it. Subsequently,
> during your log analysis, there should be a cross reference to the actual
> spam IP addresses reported.




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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex