Feature suggestion

[Stanier, Alan M]

The problem is not that they can't read it, but that they can't parse it
to extract the hit count.

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Alan Stanier
Essex University Information Systems Services
Systems Group



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rose, Bobby [mailto:brose at MED.WAYNE.EDU]
> Sent: 27 August 2002 15:59
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Feature suggestion
>
>
> But if they can't read the header for the already existing score, how
> will adding another header help?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rabellino Sergio [mailto:rabellino at DI.UNITO.IT]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 10:37 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Feature suggestion
>
>
> "Rose, Bobby" wrote:
> >
> > Tagging the subject with SPAM would suggest that you are absolutely
> > positive that it's SPAM and not a false positive.  The score is
> > already in the header so why not use it?
> >
> But many MUA can't use this info in the mail delivery rules, so (i.e.)
> in netscape messenger you can't create a mail filter to deliver only
> these email to trash (or to another folder).
>
> I believe that a different level of tagging could be a good idea.The
> user can choose it's own spam policy in a simpler way.
>
> Bye.
> --
> Dott. Sergio Rabellino
>
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