[Spambayes] "biff" in outlook?

[Mark Hammond]

> On one of the spambayes trackers, someone recently (could I
> possibly be any
> more specific?!) posted some Visual Basic monstrosity
> claiming to be a way
> to turn the friggin' icon off.  This didn't use the Outlook
> object model,
> because the icon isn't exposed from Outlook.  It was Clever instead.

My problem with this is that it unconditionally removed the icon.  This is
not what we want - we need some code/scheme to determine if the icon should
be removed first.

This doesn't sound trivial - certainly not in my inbox and given my builtin
rule set.  The semantics for this little icon could make up a whole little
mini-project.

Sean has some ideas and code for a more generic Python filtering system,
under which SpamBayes would be just one such filter.  This appeals to me -
far more so than building this kind of stuff into the core spambayes addin.
I imagine a generic filtering system could consider it within its charter to
manage this icon, but I will resist SpamBayes doing it unless it can be
shown to be trivial and with clear, acceptable semantics.

Mark.