[LUGSB] Is there an admin in the house?

[Jim Robert]

The gmail filtering system is a Bayesian keyword filter (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_spam_filtering) combined with the
collective wisdom of all it's users. When several users gets spam at the
same time and they flag it as such it is moved to the spam folder for all
gmail users.

I don't know any good way of copying their filter into our system.

I think the reason it doesn't work in yahoo is either (a) Yahoo has a less
sophisticated keyword filter, or (b) Yahoo has a lot of email addresses that
people no longer check, so when those addresses receive the spam and don't
flag it... it appears that a lesser proportion of users flagged the message
and isn't caught.

On Jan 10, 2008 5:19 PM, Ismail <ismailc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since Gmail is properly blocking the spam, why not figure out what kind of
> filtering they are using, and copy it directly into the mailing list.
>
> On Jan 10, 2008 10:59 AM, Avishay Traeger <atraeger at cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
>
> > The problem is that they are using e-mail addresses that are subscribed
> > to send the spam.  Now that they have these addresses, I think there is
> > no choice but to moderate.  Also, in terms of the archives, I think they
> > should be public, but all e-mail addresses removed - there is no reason
> > why e-mail addresses need to be there (even obfuscated).
> >
> > Avishay
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