On 5/26/07, simonbun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right, it slipped my mind that some people read these messages via > email. It made sense to me in the groups.google.com web interface > though. That way people didn't have to read the first 5 words of the > topic before realizing it was spam. I "Report Spam"ed each message as > well, so maybe some good comes from that.
On top of that, the 'reply and rename' approach is potentially counterproductive. Spam checking algorithms are generally based on Bayesian logic - combined probabilities of keywords in the message. You are a contributor of ham messages django-users and django-dev, so your name and email address is associated with ham content - but there are now messages in the system with your email address and spam content. This acts to give the keywords in those spam messages extra credibility, because they have your email address associated with them. In effect, by replying, you are poisoning the well. I (and the other list managers) go through the archives and purge spam messages when we see them; we might get a day or so behind, but you should see that spam messages don't hang around for very long. Yours, Russ Magee %-) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
