Re: 1.4c and inline image spams

I was going to apologize for misunderstanding you until I read your last
line with the sarcastic alternative.

On 01/04, David A. Lee wrote:
> I think I miscomunicated, not misunderstood ... but i could be wrong.
> 
> What I plan to try is this
> 
> For every email which ASSP has marked as NOT belonging to my "whitelist"
>  IF that email contains inline images
>      use spamprobe -whiteliest to score
> OTHERWISE
>   use plain old spamprobe to score

(Not being familiar with ASSP) that sounds perfectly healthy.  But the ASSP
whitelist is no more relevant to spamprobe in that case than it would have
been with the previous versions of spam probe which lacked the whitelist
option.

> Is this misunderstanding what the -whitelist argument to spamprobe does ?
> Its not the outline of what Brian is doing, but I *think* its using the 
> same feature for the same purpose (???)

I'm really not sure what you think it's doing after reading this email :)

> (although I do agree the term "-whitelist" is highly misleading ... maybe 
> "-score-as-inline-images-if-not-in-your-whitelist"
> :)

Yeah that's... not what it's doing.

Perhaps a more correct alternative would be
"--do-something-sneaky-that's-much-less-maintenance-intensive-than-whitelisting"

To be clear:  The new -o whitelist option has nothing to do with
whitelisting, other than it's (more automated) basic effect.  In fact it's
as related to blacklisting as whitelisting except for spamprobe's tendency
to error on the side of resulting in non-spam.  It does not require that
you create or maintain a whitelist in anyway, it's just using the data
spamprobe already has.

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