Re: learn_with_whitelist?

2005-03-07 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
Jeff Chan wrote: As you suggest, even an uncomplete whitelist could be useful for whitening (improving scores (decreasing ham scores)) messages in SpamAssassin, but there are caveats and potential pitfalls. It could also be used as a FP tripwire, which is how we will soon be using ours. - Barr

Re: learn_with_whitelist?

2005-03-06 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
Thanks for the informative reply. We have a communal, automatic [1] email address and manual keyword based corporate-wide whitelists that predate our use of SA; I was thinking of factoring out the email address subsystem and replacing it with the AWL as a replacement to simplify the overall syst

Re: learn_with_whitelist?

2005-03-05 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
Matt Kettler wrote: Personaly, I find this dangerous. I strongly disagree with the practice of "seeding" the AWL.. You really shouldn't have to, nor want to. Would you mind explaining why you find this to be dangerous? - Barrie

learn_with_whitelist?

2005-03-05 Thread Barrie Slaymaker
I am trying to seed the autowhitelist with ham & spam and found the "learn_with_whitelist" option in PerMsgLearner. A patch to sa-learn to expose this internal option as a command line option is below. Question: is this a good or a dangerous idea? Thanks, Barrie 'sync'=> \$synconly,