On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:48:33 -0500 "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the archives at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ , there is > a button titled "Report as Spam." My understanding is that it's > connected to a Bayesian filter and that is arranges for the spam > message to be removed from the archives. > > I think this button's functionality should be split into two > buttons because the list is being hit by spam that poison > bayesian filters. > > An example is > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/09/msg00748.html . That > message contains a small amount of advertising test with a large > amount for normal speech text. Anyone reporting that message as > spam would end up poisoning the filters and thus causing normal > messages to be flagged as spam. > > Therefore, we need two buttons "Report as Spam (by Type)" and > "Report as Spam (Individually)". The "Report as Spam (by Type)" > would send the spam message to the bayesian filters and delete it > from the archives, but the "Report as Spam (Individually)" would > only arrange for the spam message to be deleted. This allows > savvy users to eliminate spam without risking making debian-users > an empty list :-) > > And what about the rest of us, the non-"savvy users"? Do we get to risk "making debian-users an empty list"? -- Raquel ============================================================ Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. --Abraham Lincoln -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]