On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 21:27, H. S. Teoh wrote: > I don't see why setting Outlook priorities violates email netiquette? SA > has a separate rule for all-caps subject lines, which *is* a good spam > indicator. People who are familiar with Outlook do use the priority > setting from time to time, and with perfectly legitimate reasons. Sure, > spammers use it too, but that only says that it is not a good measure by > which to decide whether a mail is spam. ALL CAPS subject lines don't violate any standards neither. I use them sometimes, myself (although almost only for joke emails and such...). Nonetheless they are a very good spam indicator, so sa gives them a score. Exactly the same with Priority headers (and this is not only for outlook. Priority header are much older than Outlook). Oh, and: >> The problem here is, I guess, that there is only one system wide >> spamassassin config file on the Debian list machine (listmasters correct >> me if I'm wrong). There are a number of non-english speaking lists, >> including chinese and japanese ones. >[snip] > > You don't need to put this in the system-wide config file. ok_locales can > be used in per-user config files as well, although if all lists run as the > same user, that could be a bit of a problem. As I said, IANADD, so I can't investigate the current setup. But you do realize that I never said those directives had to be in the site wide configuration. cheers -- vbi -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part