The delete or tag dilemma

[Julian Field]

Read
http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/conf.shtml
and look for the word "High".
Should be enough to get you started, I hope.

At 09:06 06/09/2002, you wrote:
>We take the view at this site that there is more danger in missing an
>important e-mail than in getting spam.
>
>As we have not yet been able to eliminate false positives from our spam
>scanning (with SpamAssassin) we simply tag spam at our Mail Hubs and
>leave it to users to deal with the tagged messages. Even so a user may
>still miss an important message because it was a "false positive" and
>was buried amongst genuine spam in the spam folder.
>
>Are there any sites out there that are automatically deleting spam with
>a very high score but delivering as tagged mail spam that falls below
>that threshold but is above the "normal" spam threshold (usually 5 to
>9)?
>
>If they are doing this, can they describe how? I recall some discussion
>about this on the list but cannot find the message(s) in question.
>
>Thanks
>
>Quentin

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