From: Devdas Bhagat <devdas@dvb.homelinux.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:40:18 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20061003T113645-956@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.64.0610020933020.3952@g5.osdl.org
Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> osdl.org> writes:
<snip>
> I'm sorry, but spam-filtering is simply harder than the bayesian
> word-count weenies think it is. I even used to _know_ something about
Spam stopping is harder than anyone thinks it is. Spam is about consent, not
content, and we have no really reliable way yet of knowing consent (except a
pure whitelist).
> If you want a yes/no kind of thing, do it on real hard issues, like not
> accepting email from machines that aren't registered MX gateways. Sure,
Uhm, MX is for receiving mail, not sending it. Plenty of organisations have
different hosts for MX MTAs and outbound MTAs. I work in that field, so just a
warning note for anyone who wants to take Linus' advice.
Devdas Bhagat
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-03 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-29 14:23 Spam, bogofilter, etc Lee Revell
2006-09-29 14:29 ` Ismail Donmez
2006-10-01 23:23 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-10-02 0:41 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-10-02 10:03 ` Matti Aarnio
2006-10-02 15:21 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-02 15:24 ` Martin J. Bligh
2006-10-02 15:48 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-02 17:39 ` Erik Andersen
2006-10-03 3:37 ` dean gaudet
2006-10-03 4:05 ` Neil Brown
2006-10-02 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 17:19 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 18:07 ` Martin Bligh
2006-10-02 18:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-10-02 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 19:31 ` jdow
2006-10-02 19:31 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-10-02 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-04 22:41 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 17:32 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2006-10-02 21:33 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-10-03 8:08 ` John Graham-Cumming
2006-10-03 8:52 ` Howard Chu
2006-10-03 9:40 ` Devdas Bhagat [this message]
2006-10-03 9:43 ` Helge Hafting
2006-10-03 10:50 ` Gordon Cormack
2006-10-02 17:34 ` Thomas Davis
2006-10-03 16:42 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2006-10-27 22:30 ` Oleg Verych
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2006-10-03 6:08 Paul Zimmerman
2006-10-03 12:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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2006-10-03 7:01 ` Neil Brown
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