On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:58:28AM +1100, Brian May wrote: > On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 09:55:34AM -0800, Adam McKenna wrote: > > The key issue here is that the mail isn't blocked. It's simply held in > > another place until confirmed. It doesn't become a "false positive" until > > it > > is deleted without being read. > > It depends how you define the SPAM checking process. > > If you define the SPAM checking process as "an automatic process which > classifies mail as either SPAM or non SPAM", then your statement is > incorrect, it is a false postive as soon as it has been automatically > classified in the wrong group.
Not really, because the class of programs we're talking about don't make a distinction between spam and non-spam, they only make a distinction between confirmed and unconfirmed messages from unknown addresses. > However, you seem to be defining the SPAM checking process as "a series > of automatic and manual processes that automatically delete all SPAM > and nothing else from your mail folder". > > Which is interesting, the first definition doesn't take into account the > human reading the mail, the second does. > > However, as far as I am concerned, my ideal (as unrealistic as it may > be) is not to have to look at SPAM at all, which means that I use the > first definition. But to be sure you're not getting any false positives, you cruise through your "spam" mailbox every now and then, right? --Adam -- Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
