Re: Moderation of -general this week

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:58:02PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> we need more mods for this particular list. Some sort of spam filter
> would be nice, too. I can't imagine all those mails from
> POSTCARDS.RU would be hard to filter out before reaching the
> moderation queue. :)

If there were any kind of spam filtering on -general, I would volunteer. At
the moment, however, I can barely keep up with the lists I already moderate,
partly because of the volume of moderation being done because of spam. Most
days, for instance, I reject at least a dozen mails written in cyrillic
characters.. I'm willing to bet we could train some Bayesian filter to
reject those before any human were involved. They're going to get rejected
anyway.

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