[Spambayes] Mailing Lists

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Sep 9 11:45:26 EDT 2003


    thetasig>    I subscribe to a number of mailing lists.  All of these are
    thetasig>    ham.

    thetasig>    Any suggestions on how to handle this?

    Bill> This is one of the cases where a whitelist is actually valuable.

    Bill> The others are (in order of importance)

    Bill>     Your paramour
    Bill>     Your lawyer
    Bill>     Your boss

Then set it up in your procmailrc file or Outlook rules or whatever so that
those valuable addresses are dumped in the correct mailbox before SpamBayes
sees them.  We went around and around on this during the last week or two.
SpamBayes does its job very well.  If you want whitelists, your mail
software probably supports them in some way.  There's no need to add this
functionality to SpamBayes.

Skip





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