Need clarification on whitelist rules

[Julian Field]

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At 15:26 01/10/2004, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > Behalf Of Julian Field
> > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 9:10 AM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Re: Need clarification on whitelist rules
> >
> >
> > At 14:56 01/10/2004, you wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> > > > Behalf Of Julian Field
> > > > Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 7:57 AM
> > > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > > Subject: Re: Need clarification on whitelist rules
> > > >
> > > >
> > ><snip>
> > > >
> > > > What you need is a Custom Function that edits the recipients
> > list in each
> > > > message, according to whether they want to be filtered or
> > not. I've done
> > > > something like this already, just haven't yet published it.
> > > >
> > > > What form would people like it in? Added to the per-user
> > white and black
> > > > list code?
> > > > It would have to be a simple "remove them from the message if
> > > > it's in their
> > > > blacklist or not in their whitelist".
> > > >
> > > > Can people see any problems with this? Something is nagging
> > me that this
> > > > isn't the correct functionality, but I can't see what the
> > right answer is
> > > > for definite.
> > > > --
> > >
> > >I guess my first question is how it's tagged as spam when there is a rule
> > >file for the spam scoring settings? If user A tagges as spam
> > with a score of
> > >5.0 and user B tagges it with a score of 7.5 how does the message get
> > >tagged, since a score of 6.5 would flag as spam for user A and
> > ham for user
> > >B?
> >
> > We use it only for automatic spam deletion. In your example, user A would
> > be removed from the list of recipients, and it would be normally delivered
> > to user B. To use it for anything other than spam deletion is pretty much
> > impossible.
> >
> > --
>
>Isn't this what you are proposing above?
>
> > > > It would have to be a simple "remove them from the message if
> > > > it's in their
> > > > blacklist or not in their whitelist".
>
>so if you handle the white/black listing here if it's spam and whitelisted
>don't remove them and if it's ham but blacklisted do remove them, or am I
>missing something?


>  I would think where every the per user scoring is checked
>if the whitelist/blacklist was checked as well it would simply adjust the
>actual tagging as spam or ham the same as the scoring based tagging would,
>the difference being if it scores as 6.5 and the user threshold is 7.5 but
>it's blacklisted it would be tagged as spam and not ham?

I don't understand that sentence at all, sorry.

>  I'm sorry if I am
>coming across dense just looking for a way to simplify the overall code
>changes

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