[scponly] Please drop rather than forward spam

[Michal Simek]

Yes, please, don't forward spam to the entire list, perhaps just one
person, or a few, to review and adjust filter in need be.

-Michal

-----Original Message-----
From: David Blank-Edelman [mailto:dnb at ccs.neu.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 6:25 PM
To: Michal Simek
Cc: scponly at lists.ccs.neu.edu
Subject: Re: [scponly] Can You Do Business With Me?,


On Sep 8, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Michal Simek wrote:

> Why does the spam detection software forward the detected spam  
> messages
> to this mailing list?

Since I run the group that donates space on our mailing list server  
for this list, I'm probably the best person to answer this. Here at  
CCIS we have a policy of labeling spam when we've detected it but not  
throwing it away unless the user explicitly filters it out of their  
mailstream. It is up to individual list owners to choose what to do  
with mail like this (e.g. some list owners don't want to take the  
chance that there will be a false positive and hence will let mail  
like this pass).

I'm happy to set the list to drop everything labeled as spam on the  
floor if so desired.

      -- dNb