[PLUG] Re: Spamassassin installed SITE WIDE now.

[Tyler F. Creelan]

> That was my understanding...

Oops, this message was actually regarding spam filtering on our drizzle
user accounts. Sorry if that wasn't clear... should have posted to drizzle
users instead.

Btw, thanks everyone for the info on how to fsck and umount. (wait, that
doesn't sound right. What were you Unix folks thinking when you made up
these commands? :)

Tyler


On 25 Nov 2002, AthlonRob wrote:

> 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.
>