Re: [gentoo-dev] Spam (was Re: Hey SEXY)

[Alan <alan@ufies.org>]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 02:12:31AM +0200, Henrik Treadup wrote:
> I don't like the idea of closing this list. If you close it you will still 
> have problems with spam in the open lists; user, newbie etc. A better way 
> of doing things would be to filter out the spam completley on all the 
> lists. 
> There was an interesting thread about Bayesian spam filtering on slashdot
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/09/17/1746248&mode=thread&tid=111
> a while ago discussing Paul Grahams essay A Plan for Spam
> http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html 
> 
> The  statistical approach described there would have filtered out all spam 
> I have seen on this list so far. (How many non spam email contain the words 
> 'dear' and 'madam' ?) 
> 
> You might wan't to check out ESR's implementation 
> http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net 

Or filter the list through spamassassin before it goes out to mailman (or
something like that).

alan

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