[MlMt] What's with the skulls?

Eric Sharakan esharakan at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 09:37:39 EST 2019


I forget why I see false positives (something with the way mailing lists 
are handled in our company IIRC), but having a whitelist for those 
addresses would be great.

Thanks.

-Eric

On 21 Feb 2019, at 8:44, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 16 Feb 2019, at 15:14, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>
>> I found the graphic both creepy
>
> I'm getting quite a lot of feedback on this. Also from people finding 
> it more than just creepy. It's already on my list to find a different 
> approach (and not just a different symbol since the real problem here 
> is that there's no explanation when it happens).
>
> For the record, to me it's just a cartoonish symbol and I never really 
> considered that anyone would find it creepy or worse -- in that case I 
> would not have used it.
>
>> and sometimes shown incorrectly
>
> It is better with false positives than false negatives for spoofing 
> attempts. It would be very hard to improve it to be smarter than 
> simply looking for the use of `@`. But I need to add some way for the 
> user to “whitelist” names.
>
> -- 
> Benny


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