----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Santerre" csanterre@merchantsoverseas.com
But taking away spam points based on an autowhitelist still makes me nervous. But you might have a few tricks up your sleeve D.Q.
that I don't
know about yet ;)
If the whitelist is setup as a SURWL, for example, using it or not would be an option to each individual mail administrator. And the negative weight applied to reduce the score would be totally dependant on the discretion of the SURWL user.
True, and having the option is good. Having the work overhead to do that
on
top of doing the blacklists is not. And the logic stands if it ain't blacklisted, it must be good ;)
Yes, but I was thinking of the lists that Jeff was coming up with from wikipedia and dmoz, and other lists like that, that he was thinking about adding to the "absolute" whitelist. I just think they would be better suited to a SURWL list and let people decide whether they want to use it or not, and if so, what kind of points they want to deduct from the score. This I feel is a better solution than having them added to an "absolute" whitelist and having no control over the matter, except to build local white/black lists.
Bill