Re: Spam filters on the mailing lists

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- --On Friday, February 22, 2008 16:12:05 -0500 Andrew Sullivan
<ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:18:33AM -0800, Josh Berkus wrote:
>> The alternative ought to let us send a moderation message straight to bayes
>> filtering.
>
> Now _that_ would be excellent. (The remark upthread about how piles of
> rules get hard to maintain is certainly true. I wasn't suggesting a rule
> list was a good solution; just that it's at least well-known and trivial to
> install.)
>
>> Oh, and I don't think we can automatically filter non-ASCII mail; we have
>> non-English mailing lists.
>
> But we can surely filter cyrillic email with Windows code points being sent
> to -advocacy, no? We don't have the ability to answer them on that list,
> AFAIK.

If someone can come up with a perl regex for this, its easy to add to the
access_rules to have it auto-reject before the moderation queue ... and we can
put that on all the "english lists" ...

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