X-Spam-Status (was Re: New Option - '-u' for update)

Boris 'pi' Piwinger 3.14 at logic.univie.ac.at
Fri Oct 4 22:51:39 CEST 2002


Ben Rosengart <br at panix.com> wrote:

>It seems to me that the question of the wisdom of using
>"X-Spam-Status" has not been adequately explored on this list.
>
>The SpamAssassin team should have picked a less generic name for
>their header.  Let's not repeat their mistake.  A well-behaved
>program working in a shared namespace (in this case, email headers)
>should claim a previously-unused piece of the namespace for itself
>and stay within that piece.  So bogofilter should use "X-Bogo" or
>something similar, and any headers it adds should start with that.

Let's use X-Bogosity:
http://tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/bogosity.html

pi

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