On Dec 16, 2009, at 8:13 AM, "Bowie Bailey" <bowie_bai...@buc.com>
wrote:
Christian Brel wrote:
The point comes back to this and it has *not* been answered sensibly;
WHY DOES SPAMASSASSIN DEFAULT INSTALL WITH A NEGATIVE SCORING RULE
THAT
FAVOURS A COMMERCIAL BULK MAILER. Namely the negative score for
Habeas?
Because it allows desired mail to be delivered, while permitting more
aggressive rules to detect spam, even if those same techniques are
sometimes used by legitimate bulk mailers.
("legitimate mail" in this context means mail that the end user wishes
to receive...bulk or otherwise)
Quite right. Now, can we drop this? Or is the black-helicopter crowd
able to produce masscheck results that show better accuracy without
those distributed whitelists so that they can argue with facts that
they can do a better job?
