Hello, > >I added a section to the main page of the wiki www.exito.us :) > >One can't repeat this enough, it is NOT a good idea to automatically delete > >emails marked spam. Then again, it isn't a good idea to date your cousin, > >but some people never learn!
OK, I'll have to admit I darn near sprayed beer all over my keyboard and monitor after reading that.... > It IS a good idea to delete SPAM if your users DEMAND it -- and you > circulate a "hold-harmless" just in case an important email is accidentally > deleted. I'll concur that auto-deletion is not the wisest path to follow but I, too, am being lead down that path at the ISP I volunteer time to (non-profit, so don't get your hackles up). I am pushing *very* hard that if auto-deletion is established that only *very* high- scoring messages get thwacked, and only *after* we get per-user configurability running for white-lists. And, if done, will only get done at some value > (2 or more) than the tagging threshold. I don't do auto-deletion even on my very tightly controlled mail stream. The risks are too great. As an example, I had a mail message come in from a chap who wanted to talk to me about my computer "museum". The message scored a whopping 12.5 -- well beyond my threshold of 4.2. If I'd bucketed the message I never would have seen something important. Cheers. +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ | Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin) | West Boylston | | Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast | Massachusetts, USA | | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------+ | http://users.rcn.com/crfriend/museum | ICBM: 42:22N 71:47W | +------------------------------------------------+---------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here:http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/358/0 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
