[Spambayes] Re: whitelist

[Coe, Bob]

In one of the threads dealing with the interaction between Spambayes and Outlook filtering rules, I mentioned that it would be nice if Spambayes could simply be treated as one of the Outlook rules. This illustrates why I think that. Whatever you think of whitelisting in a Spambayes environment (and I'm pretty sure I agree that it's unnecessary), it becomes dead easy if you can apply the whitelist (via one or more Outlook rules) before Spambayes gets to look at any messages.

Bob


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derrick 'dman' Hudson [mailto:dman at dman13.dyndns.org]
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 4:07 PM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] Re: whitelist
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 09:52:12PM +0200, kasper b. graversen wrote:
> | hello there.. I just read a review of your product. it sounds great.
> | but... when are you going to implement whitelist's in the program?
> 
> There is no need to.  First of all, spambayes doesn't actually do
> anything to your email, so it can't possibly be lost.  If you want
> "whitelisting" then it belongs in the sorting rules you have.  Simply
> check the values you want to whitelist on _before_ checking spambayes'
> classification of the message.  Besides, whitelisting can not be
> guaranteed to work because (almost) anything you want to whitelist on
> can be forged by spammers and worms.