[Spambayes] Feature Request

[Bryan D. Andrews]

I definitely think this is subjective and I think the FAQ says it
best...

Anyway, whether or not this feature would be used by everyone, it would
be a great addition. I do not know how many emails I may have lost to
the junk folder because I can barely keep up with my suspects folder and
if there was a way for me to keep an active local whitelist based on my
contacts, my sent items, and my HAM, I would dare say I would have more
confidence in my ability to not miss a business communication.

I am pretty active in the development community and I can say in the
past 10 years I have never received spam (forged) from an associate. I
dare say much of the userbase of spambayes (unless they are python
developers apparently :)) do not either.

Anyway thanks for the responses -- I had not seen that FAQ.


-----Original Message-----
From: Skip Montanaro [mailto:skip at pobox.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 4:16 PM
To: Bryan D. Andrews
Cc: spambayes at python.org
Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Feature Request


    Bryan> Don't you agree that you should be able to whitelist everyone
you
    Bryan> are doing business though?

No, actually I don't.  I get the occasional spam and/or virus purporting
to
be from people in the Python community who I believe would never spam me
and
who I also trust keep their machines virus-free..  I trust SpamBayes to
sort
things out.  In situations where I think email coming from a particular
source "can't possibly be spam", I filter it to the proper mailbox
before
SpamBayes sees it.  You should be able to do this in Outlook as well.  I
don't use Outlook though, so I'd be hard-pressed to tell you how to do
this.

Skip