From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46191 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex Schroeder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:19:01 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87k7mm7aqy.fsf@emacswiki.org> References: <87d6sf42ys.fsf@emacswiki.org> <871y8u7un8.fsf@emacswiki.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029795794 18105 127.0.0.1 (19 Aug 2002 22:23:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:23:14 +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 17guvW-0004ge-00 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:23:11 +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 17guqZ-0003RU-00; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:18:03 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:18:35 -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 RAA24122 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 17:18:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 6522 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2002 22:17:32 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 6517 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2002 22:17:32 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (80.91.224.244) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Aug 2002 22:17:32 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby.gnus.org with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17gvGX-0008Ba-00 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 00:44:53 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dclient217-162-239-43.hispeed.ch Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1029797093 30874 217.162.239.43 (19 Aug 2002 22:44:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Aug 2002 22:44:53 GMT 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 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2.90 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DCyBIJ+E6dR7Lt2+02PQ55xEHBg= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46191 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46191 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Alex Schroeder writes: > >> 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. > > You can tell spam.el to create/update the dictionary whenever a > message is marked as spam. That's cool. Ted Zlatanov also had interesting ideas. My problem is that the algorithm requires several megabytes of data structures. I think a lot of this can be simplified, so perhaps we can reduce this by 50% or more. I'll give it a try. Alex.