On 6 jul 2009, at 19:53, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
A message's 'state of spamminess' is an attribute of the message, properly denoted by keywords that stick to (and with) the message.
That's nice in the abstract, but why do we have servers classify messages as spam to begin with? In order to not have to look at them, or to be able to look at them when it suits us to clean out the spam rather than in between mail that we actually wanted to receive.
So moving spam to a separate folder is not something that happens because of lack of a better mechanism, but the thing that we want to happen 98% of the time anyway.
$spam and $nospam
There are more states than that: 1. automatically flagged as spam 2. automatically flagged as non-spam 3. manually flagged as spam 4. manually flagged as non-spamWhere 1 and 2 / 3 and 4 are mutually exclusive but 1 + 4 and 2 + 3 should trigger retraining of baysian filters etc.