584810 - Restore "not a scam"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect, P5)

Description

[Jim Watt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: Eudora 1.0 RC2

Some time ago, the wording of the scam "ignore" message was changed from "Not a scam" to "Ignore Warning".  I think the old language was more descriptive of the situation.  The user isn't ignoring the warning, but is acting on the warning by affirming that the message is not a scam.

Could you consider changing it back?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Display message that generates the scam warning in the mail window.
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Actual Results:  
Message "Ignore Warning" is displayed.

Expected Results:  
(See discussion)

Comment 1

[Matt Dudziak]

This is actually behavior inherited from Thunderbird. Assigning to Thunderbird as this is not unique to Penelope.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The old language was more descriptive of the situation any sensible user would want, "hey, program, you screwed up by calling this a scam, now remember I told you differently and don't make the same mistake again!" However, it was changed to reflect the actual situation, that with the current method of scam detection which cannot learn, all you can do is "ignore warning," and at least when that's what's on the button label, you won't be surprised when the program doesn't learn from you telling it that it was wrong (as thousands of people were, dozens to the point of filing duplicate bugs all saying "I told Thunderbird that newsletter from Foo wasn't a scam, and then it turned right around and called the next one a scam, and it doesn't figure it out no matter how many times I tell it!").

Comment 3

[Jim Watt]

Thanks for the clarification.  I've turned off the so-called "spam warning" feature.

Jim