[PLUG] Re: Spamassassin installed SITE WIDE now.

[AthlonRob]

On Sun, 2002-11-24 at 11:25, Tyler F. Creelan wrote:

> Out of curiousity, what happens to messages when they test positive for
> spam? It gets sent on to us with **SPAM** in the subject line, correct?

That was my understanding...

> In theory the positive message could also be deleted or placed in a folder
> for review by the sysadmin, but as legitimate email is often tagged
> positive, this could violate the user's privacy. For example, if
> spamassassin tagged a steamy letter from your girlfriend as spam, you
> wouldn't want the admin reading the letter and forwarding it on to you.

Sure, in theory... but the only messages that are getting sent to a
sysadmin for checking are those sent to the *public list*... so in this
case that is not an issue.

It would be one hell of a sysadmin who would go through your mail and
look for spam... lol  :-)

> Another guideline established on site-wide spam filtering is to provide
> users the means to opt out. For example, most users don't receive a lot of
> spam and it would be annoying if one of their friend's emails were
> consistently flagged as spam. Mandatory spam filtering also constitutes a
> kind of censorship in that messages containing certain phrases, or manners
> of expression (ie shouting in all caps), are usually flagged.
> 
> Anyway, I don't get many messages on this account, but generally its
> important to balance spam filtering and protecting user privacy/freedom of
> speech. Observing the "tag and forward" and "opt-out" policies helps to
> achieve this.

Since all it does is add something to the subject line... I wouldn't be
very conerned if I were you.
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AthlonRob <athlonrob at data.4t3.com>