Whitelists [was: SPAM with lots of random words and good words]

[David Relson]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:01:27 +0100
Andreas Pardeike <andreas at pardeike.net> wrote:

> On 2004-01-19, at 11.24, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
> 
> >> I have been seeing few messages like the one forwarded below.
> >
> > Why do you send spam to this list? Just to spoil databases?
> 
> Now that this had come up so many times (and I think it's just
> natural to talk on this list about spamish words) it would be
> a nice idea to have a way to exclude certain mailing lists (at
> least this one here) from training bogofilter.

There's no need for bogofilter to implement whitelists or blacklists. 
As it is generally run from procmail or maildrop, it's easy to add an
appropriate "from bogofilter" test for the mailing list.

David