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User interfaces - yes!

User interfaces - yes!

Posted Feb 23, 2006 13:33 UTC (Thu) by bk (guest, #25617)
In reply to: User interfaces - yes! by davidw
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to bayesian spam filters

I mostly disagree. Spam filtering is an upstream, mail-provider problem. Failing that, however (let's say you're stuck with a lax sysadmin who doesn't care about the spam flooding his/her users), it is good to have a fallback like MUA filtering.


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User interfaces - yes!

Posted Feb 23, 2006 13:55 UTC (Thu) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Except that training, an essential component of spam filtering these days, is a downstream, user problem.

I think that ALL spam filtering should occur on the server, before the message queue. This just solves so many problems. However, training necessarily requires user interaction, and therefore should be supported in the MUA. True, there are web-based hacks, like in dspam, to try to work around this but just try explaining them to a clueless user!

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