Re: 1.4c and inline image spams

Brian Burton <[email protected]> Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:34:10 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamprobe.general
Message-ID <C1C30732.9505%[email protected]>
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On 1/4/07 7:23 PM, "Darxus-5+gNnNaL/BD/[email protected]" <Darxus-5+gNnNaL/BD/[email protected]> wrote:
> On 01/04, David A. Lee wrote:
>> This is great.   My first thought was "Oh well, cant use that because I dont
>> want to bother managing a whitelist ... ASSP does that for me" but wait ...
>> ASSP does that for me !
>> 
>> Whoo Hoo. I'm running ASSP as a front end full-system spam filter.
>> Then for me personally I'm also filtering by spamprobe.  This means ASSP has
>> already handled the whitelist and has conveniently tagged the email with a
>> header
>> 
>> X-Assp-Whitelisted: Yes
>> 
>> So now I can just look at this to determine what arguments to further score
>> the spam with spamprobe ... :)
>
> Well that didn't take long for this misuse of the term "whitelist" get
> visibly horribly misunderstood :)

It's a "virtual" white list. :-)  Actually as David points out, he has a
good opportunity to forgo needing to use SP for the "virtual white list" at
all.  He can just block any inline spam email unless his X-Assp-Whitelisted
header is there.

But yeah, I've overloaded a term when I probably shouldn't have...

++Brian



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