Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Moritz Schulte <moritz@×××××××××××××××.de>
To: Mark Bainter <mark-gt@×××××.org>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Spam (was Re: Hey SEXY)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 08:54:57
Message-Id: 87y99nv86n.fsf@fnord.sc
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Spam (was Re: Hey SEXY) by Mark Bainter
1 Mark Bainter <mark-gt@×××××.org> writes:
2
3 > Hrm...choice seems clear to me. Filtering spam on a mailing list is
4 > a bad idea. It's one thing for an individual user to decide an
5 > acceptable level of risk for false positives, it's quite another to
6 > choose that for an entire list.
7
8 Spam does not have to be filtered out in the sense of dropping the
9 mails. Mails, which look like spam to a filter, could be extended
10 with an email header tag. Then all mails would still be delivered,
11 but users are free to filter out those mails, which are tagged as
12 spam.
13
14 moritz
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16 moritz@×××××××××××××××.de - http://duesseldorf.ccc.de/~moritz/
17 GPG fingerprint = 3A14 3923 15BE FD57 FC06 B501 0841 2D7B 6F98 4199