UI for correcting mistakes

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Fri Mar 14 16:32:09 CET 2003


elijah <elijah at riseup.net> writes:

> 4) embedded links
>
> the body of a suspected spam could be modified to provide a URL for
> correcting a 'false positive'.
>
> advantages: VERY easy for all users and all clients.
> disadvantages: requires custom programming depending on your particular
> mail storage. does not include a way to correct 'false negatives'.

You can also add an URL for reporting spam that wasn't detected very
much the same way. And to translate "particular mail storage": you'd
need to store any mails (or at least what bogolexer extracts) for some
time window (say, 10 days).

Other than that, a useful summary of the problem.

-- 
Matthias Andree




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