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On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:12:31AM +0200, Henrik Treadup wrote: |
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> I don't like the idea of closing this list. If you close it you will still |
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> have problems with spam in the open lists; user, newbie etc. A better way |
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> of doing things would be to filter out the spam completley on all the |
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> lists. |
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> There was an interesting thread about Bayesian spam filtering on slashdot |
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> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/1746248&mode=thread&tid=111 |
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> a while ago discussing Paul Grahams essay A Plan for Spam |
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> http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html |
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> The statistical approach described there would have filtered out all spam |
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> I have seen on this list so far. (How many non spam email contain the words |
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> 'dear' and 'madam' ?) |
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> You might wan't to check out ESR's implementation |
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> http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net |
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Or filter the list through spamassassin before it goes out to mailman (or |
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something like that). |
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alan |
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Alan "Arcterex" <alan@×××××.org> -=][=- http://arcterex.net |
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"I used to herd dairy cows. Now I herd lusers. Apart from the isolation, I |
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think I preferred the cows. They were better conversation, easier to milk, and |
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if they annoyed me enough, I could shoot them and eat them." -Rodger Donaldson |
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