#53 Other Categories than SPAM...

[Anonymous]

POPfile has the very nifty feature to have more than
one sorting category called "spam" - you could create
several "buckets" there to sort any category you like
by a bayesian filter (eg. work, private, shopping...).

isn't it a very cool idea to use this powerfull tool of
bayesian analysis not only for one purpose?
And wouldn't this be great in spamatoxy too?

think about it - i'll wait for it ;))

[Keno Albrecht]

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Yes, it is a very cool idea which we have thought about
before. Maybe we provide such a feature in a future release
of Spamato, but I doubt that it will be integrated in the
next release, though...

[James Calfee]

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I could use these top level categories to more effectively generating Spam Complaints (as a plug-in):

'FTC', 'SPAM@UCE.GOV', 'Federal Trade Commission, specific complaint about unsolicited commercial e-mail (spam), pornography, false or mis-leading routing or subject information.
You can see that sub-categories might be effective here.

'FDA', 'webcomplaints@ora.fda.gov', 'Food and Drug Administration, medical products that you think might be illegal'

'SEC', 'enforcement@sec.gov', 'Securities and Exchange Commission, investment-related Spam e-mails'

This covers probably 80% of the Spam. Other categories might be added for things like like replica watches, software, etc.....

[Keno Albrecht]

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Just to be honest, I won't support this in the near future. But it's not deleted from our TODO-list, just low priority. It would not be too wise to build something on top of this idea right now.

Is this feature a must for Spam Complaint?

[James Calfee]

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No, I have this done already. In the GUI if users want they can categorize the e-mail allowing the FTC, SEC, FDA to be notified on those messages.