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| Submitted: Jun 7 2006
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Description:
Small Intro to the idea (skipable):
We're trying to make KDE great for the user right? Existing and New? My idea was to focus on the problems both of these groups have. SPAM.
Those of us who haven't been living under a rock these past few years has seen the phenomenal success of Firefox and Thunderbird- partly because they make UI better (for which we already have great ideas) AND relief from the internets worst features (malware and spam)
KDE is going in a great direction but what about the features in existing programs?
The idea:
WE NEED BUILT IN SPAM REMOVAL.
With Kontact/Kmail one can be pounded with spam but in KDE the user can take advantage of some brilliant cross program tools, why not expand that?
With Kmail, Akregator, Kopete and Konqueror a user is probably going to view/talk about their interests, visit sites that they want to know about etc
The idea is to use these four pillars of KDE software to form a great antispam tool, at the moment we haven't got such a great selection and it could be a great feature.
Simple examples:
Example1:
A user visits xbox.com in Konqueror and signs up for a newsletter, because it's in his/her history and they submitted their email the system knows Xbox.com emails are ok.
On the flipside if the user really is interested in "Free Vi@gra" and "P0rn PicZ" then it knows this too from their history and DOESN'T filter it.
Example two:
User talks about a website or a topic on Kopete with a friend, and emails with these commonly used themes aren't blocked. Neither are emails from the people the user talks to.
Example three:
Akregator's feeds also help the spam filter.
Example four:
Anything from somebody in the users address book is ok (pretty sure this is already in)
A term filter could be included, so if you worked at "Initech" emails with the word in would NEVER be spam.
Obviously normal features like training would/could be incorporated but personally I see this as a feature only possible in a big project like KDE where the applications can connect so well. I'd say it's a killer app and likely to be increasingly needed in the future for many users. Thunderbird has built in spam filtering, as will the next OE (IIRC), KDE shouldn't fall behind (or fall back on inferior tools)
Useful to older users and enticing for new users.
(Disclaimer: Linux Noob post, sorry if this is wrongly formatted or in the wrong place...or plain rubbish!)
License: GPL
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