Rick Beebe wrote: > I'd like to appeal to the SA collective to change the name of the > PENIS_ENLARGE tests to something a little more innocuous. Apparently > some people find it offensive to see it in their email.
I think almost everyone who responded missed the real problem here. And quite frankly the "combative" attitude as it was described by one poster is disconcerting. Rick is asking about this point in good faith. Please think about being a helpful community of SA users and not a hostile one. This isn't the perl5-porters list, after all. Here is what I see as the problem. (The world according to Bob.) The default configuration is to show you the result of the tests and the spam as an attachment. Now instead of being offended by seeing spam they are being offended by seeing spam-like reports about the spam in the message. To the user reading this it is still ugly. While life is a little bit better it is still not a nice place to be. Every spam message is still there in-your-face. So what is the problem with this? Why aren't most of the users on this list offended in the same way? I will hazard a guess that most of the more sophisticated users do things completely differently. I am guessing that most file it into seperate folders. > So I've taken to doing a search and replace changing it to > BIGGER_BITS. It will be a minor pain to do that every time I > upgrade, but it's doable. It doesn't seem like it should be a big > deal to make that change globally, though. Is it? Thanks for your > consideration. Instead of doing this let me suggest that you turn on automatic filing of spam into different folders other than the user's main mailbox. This way whenever there is a spam and the associated spam report it is not in-your-face for your users. They have to go trolling through the garbage can in order to see it. In real life if a user is trolling through the garbage pale and finds something discusting they deal with it. It is a hazard of searching the garbage pale. This is one method to keep the offenses to users to a minimum. Alternately if a caught-spam folder is not an option then I would turn on header reports (can't remember the exact option, but man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf would show it) so that all the user would normally see would be the marking that the message was in the attachment and probably spam. Again, if the user wants to see the details of the garbage they have to go out of their way to do so and will not be casually offended. I think this second option is somewhat less desirable than the first. As a last option, you could post filter all mail and do a regular expression change for the naughty word rules to change them to your choice of report names. Being a post processor of the mail you would not need to modify SA at all and could upgrade it stock every time. A procmail rule should be able to do this rather easily. I think this is the least desirable solution but yet another possibility. Bob ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
