Date: 04 Jul 2002 19:43:20 -0700 From: Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org> To: Nils Vogels <nivo+freebsd-questions@yuckfou.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] ISP anti-spam Message-ID: <1025837001.35866.4.camel@chip.wiegand.org> In-Reply-To: <20020704200741.GL69958@amor.yuckfou.org> References: <200207040113.g641DFL87663@tierzero.apana.org.au> <208425312.1025768862@sauron> <20020704200741.GL69958@amor.yuckfou.org>
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On Thu, 2002-07-04 at 13:07, Nils Vogels wrote: > On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 07:47:42AM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: > > > > --On jeudi 4 juillet 2002 10:48 +0930 Brian Astill > > <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> wrote: > > > > > There seems to be a movement among ISPs to "help" us by applying > > > spamassasin (or similar) to all mail they handle - IN or OUT. > > > Is this an invasion of privacy? > > > Is such behaviour dangerous, in suggesting to political control freaks > > > that Internet Control is possible and desirable? > > > Would it be MUCH better for all users to be encouraged to use spam > > > filters, if they wish? > > > > > > What do people think on these and related issues? > > > > I surely prefer spam hi my inbox and delete it manually than loose mail. > > That is not the intention of spamassassin at all, spamassassin is a package > which is meant to _ONLY MARK_ spam as being such and leaving it up to the end > user what to do with it (user header/subject/whatever filters) That is what my isp does. I don't know if they use spanassassin or something else, but it sends lots of mail into a junkmail mailbox and then the end user can view what's there and delete or keep whatever he wants. Only problem I've seen is it filters too many non-spam messages. They have tried to fine tune it but it still get's a large amount of messages from the cvs-freebsd list, in particular. > My opinion is, that ISP's adding spam detection (and/or virus detection for > that matter) are doing a good thing, as long as they leave the actual decision > for deletion up to the end-user. I agree. -- Chip Wiegand chip@wiegand.org www.wiegand.org > Just my $.02 > > -- > Nils Vogels PGP:0xC26BD15F Available on keyservers. > S@H:4988WU/6.761yr --> setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu. Will you find aliens? > > My other computer is your windows box. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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