Feature Request: Phishing

[Roger Jochem]

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This would work too.

In my case I'd let the whitelist empty, and all phishing would be
disarmed...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pentland G." <G.Pentland at SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:25 PM
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Phishing


> Julian,
>
> I think a possible solution could be to include a "phishing whitelist",
> not quite sure how the concept would work yet as I'm thinking aloud a
> little.
>
> This would allow a disarm action to be used as I suspect if your users
> are broadly like mine, the complaints are likely to be from a small
> group of mailing list users and those mails could be whitelisted around
> the phishing code?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Julian Field wrote:
> > I purposely didn't do that as there is an inevitable false alarm
> > rate. I don't even tag the Subject: line. Having a valid (false
> > positive) link removed would annoy my users very quickly!
> >
> > Roger Jochem wrote:
> >
> >> I'd would like to have a way of "disarming" phishing frauds from the
> >> e-mail instead of warning the user about it.  Could it be done?
> >> Something like removing the <a href...> from the e-mail, disabling
> >> the fraud. Even warning my users, some of them open the link. Maybe
> >> because they're curious about it... Is it possible?
>
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