Re: Mail sent to midcom (fwd)

[Vernon Schryver <vjs at calcite.rhyolite.com>]

> From: Thomas Narten <narten at raleigh.ibm.com>

>        ...    However, because spam filters can make mistakes, it is
> highly desirable (as a sanity check/second opinion) for a human to
> double check automatic rejections.  Unfortunately, having a human look
> at a message and decide whether to forward it on will always be viewed
> as moderation/censorship by some regardless of the reasons for doing
> so.
> ...

That seemes to assume that automated spam filters are necessarily
based on content and have significant false positive rates.  Neither
need be true.


Vernon Schryver    vjs at rhyolite.com