[e2e] latest spate of cruft postings to e2e
Joe Touch
touch at ISI.EDU
Thu Nov 6 20:08:34 PST 2003
Ramaprabhu Janakiraman wrote:
> Instead of either/or, why not mix-n-match?
>
> One solution:
>
> 1) There will be a set of subscribers. Their email will be forwarded
> unfiltered. All non-subscriber email will be filtered.
User source names have been faked before. As a result, all mail is just
filtered anyway.
> 2) First, there will be an automatic level-1 filter (L1) common to the list.
> L1 will classify each non-subscriber message into "Yes" (Definitely SPAM), "No"
> and "Maybe" cases. The threshold between "Yes" and "Maybe" is set very
> conservatively (perhaps even to the point of eliminating the "Yes" case)
> to get a negligible false positive rate.
We already do that.
> 3) A "No" message is forwarded, and a "Yes" dropped, silently.
> A "Maybe" from L1 will be forwarded to the "moderator" for approval.
This is also already done.
Joe
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