From: Aron Roberts (aron@socrates.berkeley.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 15:20:32 PDT
Hi Sara,
In the message "RE: Spam question? was [Micronet] Funds Investment",
dated 2002-07-30, Sara Golemon wrote:
>Rather than outright rejecting messages which do not conform to a proper
>ruleset (such as identified sender or what-have-you) has any consideration
>been given to using a mail preprocessor which would identify potential spams
>and insert a flag into the message header? Then each individual could deal
>with those flagged messages as determined best for their needs.
>
>For example, I've used a product called "SpamAssassin" on my mail server to
>analyze incomming mail messages, and if they appear to be spam, will add the
>following header to the message:
>X-Spam-Status: Yes
In one of Henry Norr's aforementioned articles, he mentioned that
his employer, the San Francisco Chronicle, has configured
Brightmail's product to do something very similar:
>As configured at the Chronicle, the [BrightMail] filtering service
>simply inserts the label "Spam?," in brackets, in the subject line
>of message it suspects.
Whether filtering tools add one or more X-headers to the envelope
information of your incoming messages, or rewrite their subject
lines, or both, the approach is the same: flagging messages suspected
of being spam and allowing individual e-mail users to determine how
they wish to further handle these messages.
Of course, this approach imposes a modest burden on each individual
e-mail user and their support organizations to set up and maintain
local spam filters, if they wish, although this burden is likely much
less formidable than that imposed by manually dealing with large
volumes of unflagged spam messages.
Aron Roberts
Workstation Software Support Group
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