[Spambayes] Whitelisting
Cedric Beust
cbeust at bea.com
Mon Apr 12 11:42:50 EDT 2004
> From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.one at comcast.net]
> While I wouldn't
> object to adding whitelist gimmicks, I won't work on them,
> because they'd be a net loss for me (I wouldn't use them).
Fair enough, Tim. I am certainly not asking any of the free SpamBayes contributors to implement this feature just because *I* want it. I am simply trying to find out the reasons that led to the Whitelisting statement in the FAQ.
I am thinking about adding this feature myself, so I am just trying to assess
1) If I am wrong thinking Address Book Whitelisting is a good thing.
2) If it would be hard to add to the curent codebase.
About the latter, you make an excellent point with:
> Note that
> there are increasing problems trying to access the address
> book, because every Outlook service pack makes that harder to
> do (accessing the Windows address book is most associated with viruses).
I am still hopeful that an add-in will have enough privileges (possibly enabled by the user) to access the Address Book, but it's something for me to find out.
I took a look at the binary distribution and it is... well, binary :-)
Are you guys using a Win32 Python compiler to produce this output?
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Cédric
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