The Risk of Spam Complaints

[Rob Hill]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:18:02AM +0200, Boris 'pi' Piwinger spake thusly:
> Hi!
>
> I just got a false positive. It was a spam complaint I wrote, of
> course, including the original spam (quoted). I bcc'ed the address the
> spam was delivered to.                                               
>
> Now clearly that mail of mine contained all the bad words. So I had to
> -N it. But then this makes the bad word better again. I don't have a 
> solution to this, though.
>
> pi
>

I've been wondering about this too - especially with regards to
postmaster email (which I'm bypassing for now). Often postmaster mail
(which is completely legit) has the body of a spam email in it - should
this be marked as spam or non-spam?

Also, another question if you will - most users don't have a 'bounce' or
'resend' facility on their mailer - so if they _forward_ spam to a
bogofilter alias to have it marked as spam, the forwarded mail contains
many headers that are legitimate, including the from address of the
sender etc... (and Subject: Fwd: etc...).

Will these mails not 'corrupt' the corpus?

Has anyone come across this before?

Thanks,

Rob



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