Classifying bounced messages

[Bill Wohler]

David Relson <relson at osagesoftware.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:45:26 -0700
> Bill Wohler <wohler at newt.com> wrote:
> 
> > I was just wondering, is it a good idea to classify bounced messages
> > that are in your "unsure" category as spam?
> > 
> > With the recent sobig virus, lots of crap is mailed with my address
> > used as the sender so I'm getting a lot of messages that are from
> > Mailer-Daemon that include the virus.
> > 
> > Should I be classifying these messages as spam as I would if I
> > received the virus directly, or by doing so, do I increase the chance
> > that I might miss a legitimate Mailer-Daemon message?
> 
> Bill,
> 
> My vote is "classify as spam".  Remember that bogofilter looks for
> "strong indicators of spam and ham".  The language of the bounce
> messages is probably enough different from your ham that it makes for
> good non-ham indicators.

Thanks. That's sort of my thinking too but I wasn't positive. I'd be
curious to hear any dissenting views, if there are any.

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