On Sunday, Jul 27, 2003, at 12:27 US/Pacific, Nix wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, Daniel Carrera stipulated:On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:00:13AM +0100, Nix wrote:
Spam actually seems to differ quite a lot between individuals,
Really? Why would that be the case?
I think it depends which spammers' mailing lists you've landed up on.
I think it's also a matter of one persons trash being another persons treasure. Different people draw lines in different places. If you define spam as UCE (forgetting that spam has more definitions than just UCE), then how do you, via content filtering, identify which things were solicited vs unsolicited? One person might want to have good commercial messages identified as ham instead of allowing it to be identified as spam but then white listed or filtered separately from other spam, so their corpus will have stuff in their ham folder that other people would call spam.
Or, if you're in a organizational IT group (as opposed to an individual doing this at home), you might be required by your organization to make sure that organizational announcements and broadcasts, that read as quite spammy, wont get marked as spam. Some people might do that same thing of working them into the ham corpus instead of using other techniques.
And then there's people, like me, who want all commercial email, solicited or not, to be flagged as spam ... and ALSO want unconfirmed mailing lists to be flagged as spam; basically, any annoying email goes into my "learn these messages as spam" folder and my "add these to the AWL with a +100 score" folder.
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