SpamAssassin's header lines

[Ben Rosengart]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:41:23AM -0400, Doug Beardsley wrote:
> 
> I don't see how SpamAssassin's header lines would make a difference.
> The header lines are appended to every message that is checked by
> SpamAssassin whether it is flagged as spam or not.  If your ISP/mail
> sever uses SpamAssassin, then all of your email messages will have a
> SpamAssassin header in them.  This information is clearly not useful for
> our purposes of spam classification.  What is interesting is the
> probability of the "{SPAM?}" (without quotes) string that SpamAssassin
> sometimes adds to messages that it classifies as spam.  I think we
> should get rid of all those headers and maybe have an optional parameter
> allowing us to get rid of the "{SPAM?}" string in the subject line so
> they do not interfere with bogofilter's detection.

What do you mean, "interfere"?  This is valid input!

-- 
Ben Rosengart     (212) 741-4400 x215

Microsoft has argued that open source is bad for business, but you
have to ask, "Whose business?  Theirs, or yours?"    --Tim O'Reilly