Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > <snip/> > > > >>But my biggest concern is about false positives. > >> > >>One solution would be to use spamassassin for tagging purposes only, but > >>at that point it's much better to let people do the filtering > >>themselves. There is no reason in wasting precious CPU power for that. > >> > >>A more socially-acceptable compromise would be to leave the "threshold > >>level" of the cutoff point to the various people to set (you could set a > >>.spam_threshold file in your home directory with the cut-off point). So, > >>if you keep the threshold low and complain, well, that was your own fault. > > > > I would prefer to see server-side filtering because i don't > > want to even receive the volume of junk. It is a big waste > > of precious bandwidth. > > True, but keep in mind that you can still do server-side filtering, just > you have to do it on your own (as I do already today, for example).
Bing ... the sound of light being switched on :-) Thanks, that comment helped immensely. I keep forgetting that we committers have server accounts where we can configure tools to manage our own workflows. Is that where you mean, or on your own mail server? Are you able to give any tips about how you do it? We should document that in cvs://committers/docs/ to help us all work more efficiently. I see that tetsuya has already started one doc there. > > Surely we can tune SA to minimise false-positives, especially > > since we have the experts themselves at Apache. > > Being an expert in pattern matching doesn't make you an expert in > understanding what is spam or not for somebody. > > My point is that no matter what, there is only so much you can do on a > centralized spam filter and you should not, IMO, attempt to do to much. > > That's why I think leaving the threshold configurable by person is the > best approach since it leaves you the ability to "turn the nob" in how > selective your filter is. Good, thanks for clarifying. Your comment above about "wasting CPU" had lead me to believe that you meant doing the filtering on the local desktop. --David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
