On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Raman.P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a project idea as follows: > > The software should watch my mails from a mailing list. > If a thread which doesn't contain > Anything relavant to FOSS like linux,open source, ilug, software freedom > etc., ( I can give a list of key words to look for) > > and if thread length exceeds 5 [ a user tunable number] > > then it temporarily unsubscribes me from list. > > It should watch the list( by looking at archives), ensure that > the no activity is there in the thread atleast for 2 (again tunable) days > and reactivate the subscription. > Assuming you aren't being sarcastic (in which case, ha-ha you got me!) this can probably be done with a spam filter. Train it on the corpus of the list to be able to be distinguish between OT and ham mails. Then you can just tie that in with your mail setup to delete or mark as spam the OT mails. Subscribing and unsubscribing is not what you want to be doing, you just want to improve the SNR of the lists you subscribe to.
This is an interesting project for a student, not a final semester degree project, but a fun hack. You should post your results to the list if you do go through with it. -- Roshan Mathews _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
