267881 - Turn off usage of whitelist in junk system in default configuration

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Mike Fedyk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: TB 0.9 (20041103)

Bayesian systems need to be trained on good mail as well as bad mail. 
Whitelisting encourages the practice of only training on bad mail.

With whitelisting turned on, new contacts typically go in the junk because all
of the user's other good emails are not training the bayesian system.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
The junk system is configured by default to check against an address book to see
if the sender address is contained therein.

Expected Results:  
Uncheck the whitelisting box in preferences in default configuration, while
still allowing the user to enable whitelisting against an address book.

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

I understand your point. It's a trade-off, however. Whitelisting is very useful,
and some users will not even find out about it, so leaving it off by default
reduces its usefulness.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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