Author: Chris Lightfoot Date: To: Renaud Allard CC: exim users, Mar Matthias Darin, Ian Eiloart Subject: Re: [exim] DynaStop - It works for me.
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:06:14PM +0100, Renaud Allard wrote: >
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> Ian Eiloart wrote:
> >
> > --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.
> >
>
> And further, if the spam goes into the recipient mailbox, then the
> recipient receives the spam. So there is no point bothering running a
> spam filter at all as all spams go where spammers want them to go.
how do you allow the recipient to discover when mail they
wanted has been blocked?
