Re: pyzor automatic submission

[Tony M. <to...@sp...>]

> Some time ago I have noticed that mails like monthly mailing list reports
> are listed in pyzor. I strongly doubt that such mails are feed to pyzor
> manually and I guess someone has implemented automatic submission for
> detected spam.
>
> Is this correct? Razor docs say that only manual submissions should be done
> and I'd expect the same from pyzor, however I haven't found any reference...

At the moment, there's no restriction over who can submit, so there's
effectively no way of controlling what is submitted - we have to trust
that people are only submitting true spam.  It's quite possible that
there are people that are automatically submitting, but there isn't
much that can be done about that, as far as I can see.  It's also
possible that people are submitting these as spam manually - end-users
have a bad habit of submitting as spam things that they legitimately
signed up for, but no longer have interest in, and are too lazy to
unsubscribe from.  There's not much that can be done about that,
either, unfortunately.

My best suggestion is that I would guess that messages like this have
a reasonably low hit count (e.g. instead of a hundred reports, there
are fewer than 10).  By adjusting the threshold that you use for a
Pyzor result to be considered spam, you might be able to avoid
triggering on these messages.

Cheers,
Tony