Dear sir Thanks for your kind reponse. I think I should start looking for any other idea other than plugins.
Thank You Prakash Kumar On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <step...@xemacs.org> wrote: > Prakash kumar writes: > > > I am very sorry but I could not fully understand our last > > discussion. Are you trying to say that I should work on sanitizing > > the message and building a spam filter? > > There are two possible responses to a message that contains content > that we suspect the user doesn't want distributed. (1) Don't send the > message (this is what I meant by stop/hold). (2) Remove or obscure > the sensitive information (this is what I meant by body filtering, > that is, filter out sensitive terms but let the rest of the message go > through). > > It is not obvious to me that sanitizing the message is a good idea, > although it's probably easy to implement (just substitute "[redacted]" > or a similar string for each occurance of sensitive information > detected) once you have a good filter. However, probably these > filters will be built by "ordinary folks" who don't specialize in > natural language processing, and they are unlikely to be able to write > appropriate regexps. > > As for writing a spam filter, no, that's not appropriate for Mailman > org. There are plenty of good ones (SpamAssassin, SpamBayes) already, > so writing a handler to integrate one or more of them would be the > right way to go. > > I'm still not happy[1] with the idea of multiple "plugins" as a single > project, but it might be reasonable to assemble a battery of pluging > that handle several kinds of abuse (the body content filter, plus > SpamAssassin, plus ClamAV) for example. > > > > > Footnotes: > [1] That means that given a choice of a single-task proposal and a > multi-plugin proposal of similar quality, I would definitely choose > the single-task proposal to mentor. Other mentors may feel > differently. > > > _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
