On 08/24/2012 09:32 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > > I'm one of the moderators on the (moderated) Tesla Coil Mailing List, > using Mailman, and Chip Atkinson (list owner) has set up something that > silently discards a lot of the spam. I'd say we get maybe <10% posts from > non-subscribers coming through along with the rest of the traffic. Of > that 10% maybe half or a third is something not worthy of response. The > rest of the non-subscriber posts, we just bounce with a nice message > saying "please subscribe, and your post will go through".
FWIW, I did offer to set up spam filtering for this. Need to know how they process their mail, and we can set up an annotation pipeline (complete with Bayesian, heuristic, and other filters). At the end of the process, we have a pretty good score and cutoff for spam vs not-spam. We use that for our filtering. Since we get a couple thousand emails running through the filters a day, we get maybe 3-4 false positives, and a few false negatives that we correct by hand (training the Bayesian network). -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
