On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 09:56:27PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 04:50:56PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > [snip] > > I would say there is a very high correlation between what I consider junk > > email, and what is sent with a high priority. > [snip] > Unfortunately, in my case I happen to receive actually important email > from people who regularly use the priority field. (Not many, but it is > quite important to me not to lose the few mails that come in that way.) > Hence my caution in putting too much significance on it in a spam filter. > If this is deemed not to be the case on the Debian lists, then I'm all for > filtering based on high priority. I don't think anyone has suggested giving a high enough score to the Priority headers to cause mail to be filtered all by themselves. Just like not sending a real name in the From: header is enough for the mail to be considered spam. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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