Tag human v. automated submissions> (RE: Misconceptions)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: razor-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:razor-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Shane
> Williams

...

>     As someone else pointed out, and point 3 gets at (but bears
>     repeating), there is no way of knowing the motive (or reason) a
>     given submitter sent x to the Razor database (or again, that the
>     submitter is even capable of motivation).

Perhaps it would be practical to provide a facility to indicate whether the
submission is being done by a human being or an automated system and deliver
that parameter to the users?  That would allow users to lower the relative
weight of automated submissions, which I would imagine are the source of the
majority of non-malicious false positives.  Of course, it would do nothing
helpful about deliberate abuse.  This would obviously need some clear
installation notes so that people don't set up automated scripts that end up
looking like human submissions.

Another thought... wouldn't it be possible to capture the percentage of
people who received a given e-mail but did not submit it as spam (of the
people who regularly submit, of course)?  Thus, the system could see that
out of 10,000 trusted Razor users who received the EFF newsletter, only a
handful submitted it as spam.  As the system stands, I'm assuming that
Razor's database only knows how many submitted it, not how many saw, but did
not submit it.

Nick



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