Re: [dspam-users] How are whitelisted originators registered in the database?

On Sun October 16 2005 07:21 pm, Jonathan Zdziarski wrote:

> Autowhitelisting isn't a replacement for statistical filtering. If
> you're suffering from an abundance of false positives then there are
> other issues at work here - dspam shouldn't be malfunctioning to the
> point where it's frustrating. Automatic whitelisting is intended as a
> safeguard to help during initial training. Directed whitelisting is
> philosophically unsound - dspam should be recognizing your legitimate
> mail even with whitelisting turned off.
>
> If you're having severe FP issues, I'd recommend taking a look at the
> configuration and make sure it's working properly, consider switching
> your training mode, and take additional action depending on your
> specific circumstances.

I receive a lot of messages from a few specific individuals on a daily basis.
Occasionally, they send me spam they received because I need to review it
and do whatever with it. I also have some people that send me HTML-heavy
messages that I might otherwise consider spam had it not come from those
individuals. Perhaps my email behavior is not the norm, but until they got
off my whitelist somehow, everything was working fine. Should DSPAM work
well in my case without considering the sender (ie, whitelisting)? It seems
not.

To me, a whitelisted person cannot send spam. I want them whitelisted
because I want everything they send me; no matter what it is, it wouldn't be
considered spam. If I'm tired of a whitelist person sending me ads for
their business, or whatever, I can tell them to stop and they will.

I've been retraining really spammy messages from those individuals in an
attempt to get them back on my whitelist, but it's obviously not working and
it's probably screwing up my stats.

Any suggestions?

-- 
Ron