Walter Dnes wrote:
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 07:52:10AM -0400, C. Wegrzyn wrote
I keep seeing the statement being made that spam should be returned to
the sender.
It should be rejected is more appropriate. In the case of mainsleaze
spammers-in-pinstripe-suits, the sender is using their own MTA. Most of
the time, however, you have pond-scum using compromised home-users'
machines.
I might suggest something slightly different: why not have it
delivered and marked as SPAM in the Subject line? In this way at
least I can check to see if it really is spam? I'm afraid that if it
is returned and we have false positives some mail might be returned
that I do want to see.
a) Why would I want to wade through 15 megabytes of spam after not
reading my mail for a few days ?
b) My inbox may be the *TARGET* of 15 megs of spam, but it can only
hold 10 megabytes in total... oops.
Because detecting spam isn't exact. I can get the number down - to a
mere handful - but I know for certain that I have seen email from this
list be tagged as SPAM on my client. There was some feature in it that
classified it as spam...until I trained the system I would have lost
them all or not even known about them.
Chuck Wegrzyn
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