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From: bkc@murkworks.com (Brad Clements)
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:02:11 -0400
Subject: [Spambayes] Deployment
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References: Your message of "Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:39:48 EDT."
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Did you want this on the list? I'm replying to the list..

On 6 Sep 2002 at 10:43, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> What's an auto-ham?

Automatically marking something as ham after a given timeout.. regardless of how long 
that timeout is, someone is going to forget to submit the message back as spam. 

How many spams-as-hams can be accepted before the f-n rate gets unacceptable?


> > How about adding an IMAP server with a spam and deleted-ham
> > folder. Most email clients can handle IMAP. Users should be able to
> > quickly move "spam" into the spam folder.
> 
> I personally don't think IMAP has a bright future, but for people who
> do use it, that's certainly a good approach.
> 
> > Instead of deleting messages (or, by reprogramming the delete
> > function) they can quickly move ham into the ham folder.
> 
> Yes.

I view IMAP as a stop-gap measure until tighter integration with various email clients 
can be achieved.

I still feel it's better to require classification feedback from the recipient, rather than 
make any assumptions after some period of time passes. But this is an end-user issue 
and we're still at the algorithm stage.. ;-)




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