From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46181 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:09:15 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <871y8u7un8.fsf@emacswiki.org> References: <87d6sf42ys.fsf@emacswiki.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029769691 6334 127.0.0.1 (19 Aug 2002 15:08:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:08:11 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17go8W-0001dg-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:08:08 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17go90-0000ii-00; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:08:38 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:09:09 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA23039 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:08:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 21257 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2002 15:08:21 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 21252 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2002 15:08:21 -0000 Original-Received: from relay02.cablecom.net (62.2.33.102) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Aug 2002 15:08:21 -0000 Original-Received: from smtp.swissonline.ch (mail-4.swissonline.ch [62.2.32.85]) by relay02.cablecom.net (8.11.6/8.11.4/SOL/AWF/MXRELAY/06072001) with ESMTP id g7JF7qZ08577 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:07:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from confusibombus (dclient217-162-239-43.hispeed.ch [217.162.239.43]) by smtp.swissonline.ch (8.11.6/8.11.6/SMTPSOL/AWF/2002040101) with ESMTP id g7JF7lH08669 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:07:47 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from alex by confusibombus with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17go9b-000066-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:09:15 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: ^BC$`[IcggstLPyen&dqF+b2'zyK#r.mU*'Nms}@&4zw%SJ#5!/7SMVjBS7'lb;QK)|IPU5U'o1'522W4TyzB3Ab*IBo^iw]l4|kUbdZuUDO6=Um-.4IzhNiV'B"@K#jy_(wW|Zbk[34flKY^|PrQ?$u2\fKg^]AY>wOX#H32i In-Reply-To: (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:29:44 -0400") Original-Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.90 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46181 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46181 Ted Zlatanov writes: > Do you want to integrate it with the current spam.el contents? You > just need to add a function that uses spam-stats.el, that can be > invoked on a message buffer to return t or a number if spam is > detected, and nil otherwise. See the spam-split function, it already > invokes the blackholes and whitelist/blacklist checks, and would > invoke your function as well. I have to write the code to make those > checks user-selectable via some symbols, but that's a separate thing. I would not mind adding the glue -- if people would use it. Remember that you have to create that dictionary, first! So this is not something that just works out of the box -- unless we distribute such a dictionary from the web. Maybe not a bad idea: ~% cat .spam-stat.el | gzip - | wc --bytes 192390 Did you use spam-stat.el to create a dictionary for yourself to test it with? I'd be interested in hearing about it. Alex.