Spinning off this initial topic, I'm interested in hearing feedback from people on auto-whitelists. My own experience is that some "gray" spammers (people whose junk I might well have accidentally subscribed to in the past) tend to over time become auto-whitelisted (say they send 100 emails over time, and 3 of them are not marked as spam). Anyone else seeing this? It certainly tends to be in borderline cases, but could a few of you run the tools/check_whitelist script from CVS and scan the output for sanity? I think we need to make some changes to how the auto- part of auto-whitelisting works, but thought feedback might be useful before going and just hacking based on my own observations.
C
On Sun, 2002-01-20 at 23:55, Justin Mason wrote:
Craig Hughes said:
> You also forgot to mention one of the most-fun features of 2.0:
> auto-whitelists.
duh! Yep, that's a biggie: automatically adds the email addresses of
nonspam senders to a database, so their mails won't get scanned in
future.
Since current spammer state of the art is to use randomly-generated
addresses, this turns that on its head nicely.
--j.
