On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:03:42AM -0700, Kelson Vibber wrote: > At 07:54 AM 7/7/2003, Dan Wilder wrote: > >Does anybody here find it ludicrous that a mailing list devoted > >to an anti-spam package is front-ended by insufficient anti-spam > >to keep this sort of thing off the list? > > So you're on this list but not using Razor? It caught both of them for me, > with the confidence increasing between the first and second posting. > > On a more serious note, the only spam I remember coming through on this > list is of this sort. It's a lot less blatant than most, and aside from > looking for the phrase "As an exporter in China," it's harder to identify > (software-wise) without knowing that the recipient is unlikely to be > trading fishing gear with international exporters. > > In fact, I'd go so far as to say that Razor-like programs and Bayesian > analysis are the only current anti-spam tools that *would* catch > this. It's just that both require samples to start from. > > As for the question of what anti-spam software should be running on this > list, I suspect that's more under SourceForge's control than the Razor > team's.
In my experience the SourceForge folk are not totally unresponsive. If the maintainers or weighty participants on this list ask SourceForge to consider front-ending lists with spam filtering, they might come closer to considering it. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 ICQ UIN 216717075 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100006ave/direct;at.asp_061203_01/01 _______________________________________________ Razor-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/razor-users
