Re: bogofilter ate 3/5

[Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 08:00:20PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:37:03PM -0700, Rick Ellis wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 07:00:44 +0200 Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > 
> > > spam has never been a real problem for me on LKML
> > 
> > I spend a lot of time deleting spam from the mailing lists I
> > archive. The kernel list gets a lot of spam--it's just not
> > as obvious as it is on some lists because of the large amount
> > of legit traffic. Some of the slower lists get nothing but
> > spam for weeks at a time.
> 
> agreed, but I still think that losing some legitimate emails
> is worse than getting 5% spam.
> 
> > While bogofilter may not be the answer, doing something may
> > be quite desirable.
> 
> OK, but doing something could simply consist in adding a header
> that anyone is free to filter on or not.

BTW, I forgot to say that I fear that maintaining the bogofilter
in the long term will be supplementary work for Matti, with few
chances of 100% success with happy readers.

Regards,
Willy