274019 - [RFE] Filter spam by learning what is good email in stead of bad email

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Chris Veenboer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

The current junk filter uses some kind of learning algorithm to learn what spam
is, but lots of stuff comes through anyway (mostly because of the wide diversity
in spam). I think it would be a better solution to have it learn what is the
'good' email, since that will only be business/frineds related, and thus much
narrower in scope. (everything else would then be spam)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. mark email as junk
2. get different type of spam
3. go to 1.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Actually, the algorithm does both -- remember what sort of things you marked as
junk, and remember which sort of things it thought were junk but you marked as
not junk.

Tossing all mail into junk by default seems like a bad idea, since it'll cause
people to miss mail...

Comment 2

[Chris Veenboer]

The things is, after a year or seomthing, it knows everything that is not junk,
so all new type of email (like the rolex spam) must in fact be junk, but I still
have to mark it as junk the first few times. And since there is always new types
of spam..

Comment 3

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