[Mailman-Developers] anti-spam filter

[Pratik Sarkar]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Pratik Sarkar <iampratiksarkar at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yes,thats why the language model concept will come in handy.
> The classifier will be trained on the existing archives.
> For eg,in debian list,the classifier will be trained on a training set
> containing copyright law,source code,etc.Whereas in an economists list,the
> classifier will be trained on the training set containing economics-related
> emails and conversations.
> Whenever an economics-related message will try to enter the debian
> list,the classifier would check the language model of the
> (economics)message with the classifier and would classify it correctly as
> the sentence construction/language model of a technical message(debian list
> message) and an economics message varies a lot.
> Please feel free to as me,if I have not been able to explain my views.
> Regards
> Pratik
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:07 AM, Paul Wise <pabs3 at bonedaddy.net> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>>
>> > That's a great idea (and a great example of why I don't think
>> > spam-filtering technology should be embedded in a Mailman handler! :-)
>>
>> I think you might not be thinking expansively enough, it allows more
>> flexibility to do spam filtering in multiple places. Different lists
>> will have different definitions of what is an unwanted message. On the
>> Debian lists we don't want anything about shares, liquidity and
>> financial instruments, but some economists will find messages about
>> source code and copyright law unwanted on their lists. A list for
>> pharmacists will probably want to accept messages containing
>> usually-spammy keywords. A generic mailing-list-hoster hosting all 3
>> of those will want to allow most mail and add per-list filters.
>>
>> --
>> bye,
>> pabs
>>
>> http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/
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