[Spambayes] Feature Request

[Michal Vitecek]

Skip Montanaro wrote:
>
>    Bryan> Don't you agree that you should be able to whitelist everyone you
>    Bryan> are doing business though?
>
>No, actually I don't.  I get the occasional spam and/or virus purporting to
>be from people in the Python community who I believe would never spam me and
>who I also trust keep their machines virus-free..  I trust SpamBayes to sort
>things out.  In situations where I think email coming from a particular
>source "can't possibly be spam", I filter it to the proper mailbox before
>SpamBayes sees it.  You should be able to do this in Outlook as well.  I
>don't use Outlook though, so I'd be hard-pressed to tell you how to do this.

 i think you trust spambayes way too much. i also think pre-filtering
 mail before spambayes is quite strange - what's the use of a filtering
 application if it needs such workarounds? whitelisting would imo
 definitely help, because:

 1) it's tiresome to train spambayes several weeks that certain mails
 with a pattern (== automatically generated) are indeed ham when one has
 a largish spam/ham database.

 2) some mails from certain addresses must not be missed (or put in spam
 folder where they receive much lesser attention), now if you combine it
 with sb_server.py on a firm's pop3 server you see whitelisting would
 help immensely because there are no easier ways how to do it (filter a
 mail to a mailbox before spambayes) - it's certainly more difficult
 than adding whitelisting to spambayes.

 3) it's a feature some might not use but which would be listed when
 comparing with different filtering application. i've read some reviews
 on spambayes on the internet and this missing feature was adding
 unnecessary cons to spambayes.

 also i find it a bit strange that the spambayes developers disapprove
 of this feature:
 
 1) it can't be that difficult to implement

 2) it's up to the users to decide what tokens (even compound ones) they
 consider so important that they take over the whole classification.
 it's certainly troubling one can do 'rm -rf /' but it's not the fault
 of developers that it caused problems to certain users.

    thank you,
-- 
		fuf		(fuf at mageo.cz)