Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, alex@emacswiki.org wrote:
> Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org> writes:
> 
>> That sounds very good!  I didn't know about this spam flag (I
>> didn't read gnus.ding for several months).  That makes things a lot
>> easier.  At the moment I am relying on the group name -- that
>> sucks.  :)
> 
> If we do not move the mails away, however, we need to make sure that
> every mail is processed only once.  Would it be possible to add an
> additional header or flag when processing a mail?
> 
> The alternative to using a flag is one magic group such as
> mail.spam: Process all new mail, move it to mail.spam.  If the user
> then moves mail from a group to mail.spam, we can undo the "good"
> scores for that mail and redo a "bad" score for it -- and the other
> way around.  The current approach is very much like this (although
> still incomplete).

Why not just mark spam messages that have been processed as expired?
I doubt users will want to keep spam messages around :)

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Teodor Zlatanov <tzz@iglou.com>
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