Re: [OFFTOPIC] spam scoring (was: *****SPAM***** Extracting a KeySym from an action routine)
David Dawes <[email protected]>
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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 04:39:11PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: >On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 11:26:35AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: >> >> We might disable the RBL based rules in flagging spam; they do seem to >> have a rather high false-positive rate. > >Whether it's appropriate for the xpert list to partipcate in the >social pressure aspect of DNSBLs (RBL is a trademark of MAPS BTW), or >not, I will not comment, but just keep in mind that one of the reasons >for building (some at least) DNSBLs is to exact a social pressure on >the owner of the listed host[1]. I'm not particularly interested in using these lists to apply social pressure. I'm only interested in a mechanism that provides an acceptably low level of spam without imposing subscriber-only posting restrictions. David -- David Dawes Release Engineer/Architect The XFree86 Project www.XFree86.org/~dawes