"David Gerard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 23/01/2008, Bernhard Reiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 January 2008 10:50, Alan Pope wrote: > > > > ..or anti-spam on the list server. > > > We also do this, but it does not catch everything. > > > It's a very blunt instrument in my experience with Wikimedia lists. > Our mail server assigns a spam score to everything that comes through, > but it's amazing how low some spam scores and how high some human > emails score. I tend to set high scoring mail to "discard" and a > somewhat lower threshold to "hold for moderation". On lists where it's > particularly important every human mail be read (e.g. Oversight-l, the > alert address for deleting sensitive personal information from the > wiki), I don't discard anything automatically.
I suggest to simply use a good spam filter and enqueue marked e-mails in a separate queue which is maintained by a human, so "learning data" can be collected and the false-positive rate can be reduced. I think discarding e-mails is not useful. But when using spam filters keep in mind that people who send spam also use them for testing purposes and optimise their e-mails to pass the filter. But generally speaking I think the spam rate on the FSF Europe mailing lists is quite low and if someone cleans the archive, I don't care about less than 1% spam. -- Matthias-Christian _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
