Christopher M. Iarocci wrote on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:55:26 -0400: > Auto White list shows up as AWL in the report. I had this > happen to me because I stupidly put my own domain in the whitelist by > specifying [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course, every spammer that spoofed an address > at my domain got a -100 score. >
This is just expected, but I think that the auto-learn option should be changed to not learn any whitelist or blacklist or all_spam_to mails at all. After all, the whitelist doesn't necessarily indicate that the message in question is ham, it just means that I want to get all mail from it (or appearing to be from it). Also, the whitelist entry already is good enough in detecting the message as one to let thru/not tag, so why should I feed the Bayes learner with redundant material? I wasn't aware about this problem until now. Consider the situation that you have a site-wide Bayes database (as needed by spamd) and only one user is on the all_spam_to (we don't have a machine where not at least one user is on it). Each spam he gets is automatically fed to Bayes as ham for all users. This is a horrible scenario! F.i., many people will have whitelisted this mailing list, because many mails contain spam examples. Every spam sent to it (which is twice a week or so) will get learned as ham. I'm just lucky that our milter already bypasses spamd for white/blacklisted addresses, so it doesn't get a chance to auto-learn them. Others are possibly not so lucky. I think this function needs a rewrite in this area. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
