"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> [2003:09:05:07:56:20+0100] scribed: > on Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 09:23:49PM -0500, Michael D Schleif (mds@helices.org) wrote: > > Wow! > > > > I have just discovered a serious mis-judgment by the spamassassin folks, > > or possibly by the debian maintainer of spamassassin! > > > > /usr/share/spamassassin/60_whitelist.cf > > > > This file contains ``Default whitelists'' ... ``addresses which send > > mail that is often tagged (incorrectly) as spam ...'' > > > > amazon.com > > walmart.com > > orbitz.com > > > > I don't know about any of you; but, I really want the opportunity -- up > > front -- to decide *FOR MYSELF* whether or not I consider the email sent > > to me from these sites to be spam. > > My suspicion is that these are domains which have given, erm, good > reason to the SA team to whitelist them. > > If you want to override the WL, you've got the explicit data to do so. > Fixes with procmail are similarly straightforward. > > Peace. Yes, of course. Nevertheless, I would prefer to have known about this from README, or, at least, man spamassassin; rather, than just happening to notice the -98.2 score while trying to figure out why amazon.com spam is not considered spam by spamassassin ;< I agree that I have many options on how to countermand such lunacy; but, I believe that a reasonable person would _expect_ to be informed of such subjective matters as those in: /usr/share/spamassassin/60_whitelist.cf Also, if one disagrees with the contents of that file, perhaps it would be good and nice if remedies were offered that are guaranteed to persist across product updates . . . Or, am I being too picky? -- Best Regards, mds mds resource 877.596.8237 - Dare to fix things before they break . . . - Our capacity for understanding is inversely proportional to how much we think we know. The more I know, the more I know I don't know . . . --
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