Spam notice

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Nov 7 19:08:15 GMT 2003


At 18:50 07/11/2003, you wrote:
> > > > Problem with digests, as experienced in the past with web
> > hosting and
> > > > setting up Email mailing lists, is that HTML Emails cause a lot of
> > > > headaches. The digest mode would have to strip HTML or save it as
> > > > text/plain - otherwise badly-written HTML could make an
> > > > archive really hard
> > > > to read, if readable at all, embedded styles, etc., could
> > > > make even the
> > > > prettiest HTML documents look horrendous.
> > > >
> > > > Just my $0.02 worth, but yes, I support this idea. I have one
> > > > user (who gets
> > > > 50% of all spam collected on my system of dozens of domains
> > > > hosted) who is
> > > > particularly paranoid about FP's and losing legit Email.
> > > >
> > > > -id
> > >
> > >To me, a plain-text digest containing info about the message
> > would be
> > >sufficient.
> > >Example:
> > >
> > >You received 3 messages that were considered as Spam by
> > MailScanner and
> > >quarantined, here is the list:
> > >
> > >Message 1:
> > >
> > >From:
> > >To:
> > >Subject:
> > >Spam score:
> > >Time/Date:
> > >To have this message released from quarantine, send this
> > info to your Mail
> > >Admin:
> > >/path/to/message
> > >
> > >So on..
> > >
> > >Any other ideas?
> >
> > Sorry to pass the buck on this one, but would this be better
> > implemented in
> > MailWatch?
>
>I've searched on MailWatch, but I only found commercial products or
>windows products.  Is that the thing?

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