From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [9fans] (no subject) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:49:20 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 702aea24-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 I just went through a thousand or so 9fans archived messages looking for spam. About 70% were html or had html attachments. A few valid messages also had html attachments. Just rejecting html would be helpful but still let a lot through. We could enter the arms race and throw an automated filter or go moderated (not really moderated but people filtered). The latter is the only one likely to be 100% effective, but a Bayesian filter might be good enough. Even the flames on the net are stylized enough to be recognizable as real 9fans mail. Of course even the Bayesian one needs a moderator(s) that will reclassify any misclassified stuff so that the filter will keep up with a changing world so some people will have to do extra work. However, it won't insert people delays in normal delivery.