On 03/02/14 09:45, Roger Clarke wrote: > ... I'd have thought that a set of rules could be devised that would > identify political spam with a very low false-positive ratio. ...
I subscribe to Fastmail's email service which uses SpamAssassin: http://spamassassin.apache.org/tests_3_0_x.html It deals well with most spam, but seventeen copies of the Palmer United Party (PUP) new-years newsletter got through, even after I had told it the twenty one copies of the previous PUP newsletter were spam. > Hasn't that been done in quite a few CompSci 2nd year assignments? > (If not, why not??). ... You tell me: you are the Professor. ;-) > We don't want such a rule-base implemented centrally. Fastmail has an option for sharing spam ratings, which I subscribe to. So hopefully other subscribers will not get PUP pulp. -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
