On 1/18/2011 1:15 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 01:46 -0800, Jeff Chan wrote:
While I certainly would encourage improving ham and spam corpora,
this proposal may open up a lot of grey areas that may be
non-trivial to resolve.
Agreed, and some companies will get to you sign up for accounting and
service problem notifications and then pump advertising down the channel
in such volume that the purpose for which you signed up seems utterly
forgotten.
British Telecom sets a bad example here: they even behave like a spammer
inasmuch as they regularly vary their promotions text to dodge spam
filters. I'd be worried that if word gets around that SA is developing
rules that give signed-up bulk mail a free ride then a lot more
companies will do the same.
This is a misunderstanding. I am largely against whitelisting or
negative score rules. I merely intend to increase the variety of
legitimate mail in the nightly ham corpus so our spam-hostile rules can
be better tested for safety. This will be interesting especially with
non-English ham.
Warren
