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From: Henrik Treadup <hetr9922@××××××××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Spam (was Re: Hey SEXY)
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 19:47:53
Message-Id: 20020927004752.4098612A3EA@mbox2.su.se
1 Alan wrote:
2 #
3 #Or filter the list through spamassassin before it goes out to mailman (or
4 #something like that).
5 #
6 #alan
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9 But spamassassin is sloooooow. It also uses a human generated rulebase.
10 http://www.spamassassin.org/tests.html
11 Lots of work for humans which is bad :(
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14 What we wan't is a rulebase specifically tailored to the gentoo lists. (If a
15 mail contains the word 'ebuild' it is probably not spam and if it
16 contains the word 'madam' it probably is)
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19 Bayesian filtering takes care of generating the rulebase automatically. This
20 is a Good Thing (TM).
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23 Read 'A plan for spam' http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html and you will see
24 the light ;)
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27 Where would be the correct place to have a discussion about this BTW?
28
29 /Henrik Treadup
30 hetr9922@××××××××××.se

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Spam (was Re: Hey SEXY) Matthew Walker <mwalker@×××××××.net>