>-----Original Message----- >From: Robert Menschel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 11:13 PM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Whitelist collection project > > >OK, based on what little discussion there's been so far, here's a >draft proposal for people to think about. > >Summary: A group of volunteers will maintain a collected/distributed >whitelist, using SpamAssassin's whitelist_from_rcvd capabilities, >similar to (but in the opposite direction as) William Stearns' >collected/distributed blacklist at >http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current.cf > >Goal: There are public newsletters, services, etc., which a) do not >spam, and b) can easily be mistaken as spam by SpamAssassin for a >variety of reasons (overly aggressive custom rules, wrongly taught >Bayes system, paid advertising listing SURBL URIs, etc). Though >anti-spam devotees see these as opportunities for cleaning up our >system, for the purposes of email reliability we want these emails to >go through unhindered. > >Assumption: This activity will focus only on public newsletters, >services, etc., which normally do not contain any private information. >Therefore there will not be any privacy or confidentiality concerns >for the great majority of emails from these sources.
*snip* > >- - - - - - - > >Can anyone think of any guidelines to be added or changed? > >Any volunteers willing to help out? > >Bob Menschel This might just be the first time I disagree with you Bob ;) I don't see how this ruleset will not get abused. If I was a spammer I would make sure all my spam hit these rules to let me in. As a research tool it is great! Already the SURBL whitelist is one of the best around thanks to Jeff's work. He went mad for a few weeks and collected just about every bit of whitelist info from the net. IMHO, public negative scoring rules are not a good idea, despite there best intentions. Maybe if the airlines made there emails look less like spam? :) -1 --Chris (Just my opinion. I've been outruled many times before....its pretty fun!)
