[...]Hello Matt,
Thursday, February 17, 2005, 6:30:10 AM, you wrote:
Why do you receive these advertising emails? What defines a trusted site?
As an example, I subscribe my domains through GoDaddy.com. Once in a while, I receive notices such as a domain is going to expire. I consider these important. More often then not however, I receive advertising mails. For me, these messages are unwanted. Still, GoDaddy.com is what I would classify as "trusted". You mention another good example.
Is it wise to train SA to treat these advertisement mails as spam, or will it adversely affect it in some way such as accuracy? Furthermore, can SA be successfully trained to treat one set of mails from a single source as Spam, while others are Ham? Or is best practice simply all spam or all ham?
As with any human endeavor, there's a gray area -- emails which are sent to you because of your subscription to something you want, and by subscribing you agreed to receive the advertising.
Agreed and unlike typical spam, I don't mind receiving these mails. I just don't want them being sorted with relevant mail.
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So I accept those ads, and I treat them as non-spam. I filter/delete them in my email client, not in SpamAssassin. I get one or two of these each day. It's my choice, and if they get bothersome, I'll unsubscribe.
Point taken. Perhaps I should reexamine my definition of spam...direct advertising from a known company versus broadcast advertising from one you're not associated with in any way.
-- Regards, Matt Florido
