Re: Spam spam spam spam spam

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Has anybody done any thinking about how to tie Gnus into the various
> spam inhibitants that exist?

Here are my thoughts.  :-)

1) A new splitting rule -- `spam'.  If the message is deemed to be
   spam, it returns "spam".

2) The splitting rule offers lots of (customizable) tests.  For
   instance:

   a) Vipul's Razor (which basically looks at the body and does a
   lookup to see whether somebody else has received the same spam
   before)

   b) ordb and friends (looks at "Received" headers to see whether the
   mail has gone through open relays)

   c) spamcop (basically sees whether somebody has reported that this
   user is a spammer)

   d) A white-list (sees whether you have flagged this as legitimate
   user)

So here would be spam testing rule:

(and (not white-list)
     (or (and ordb spamcom)
         vipul))
   
Both ordb and spamcop have quite a few false positives, but together,
they give pretty good results.  (I've been testing stuff like this
over at Gmane.)

There would be a few new summary mode commands.

1) `y' -- "report this as spam".  This would send the message to a
   user-defined list of spam gatherers, but would typically include
   Razor, ordb, spamcop and spamassassin.  In addition, it could use
   that package that sends a complaint to "postmaster@" all the bits
   in the Received lines.  It would be up to the user.

2) A command to enter into the white-list.  It should be a short
   keystroke -- `M-y', for instance.  This command would put the From
   address of the current message into the white-list, so that the
   spam filter wouldn't classify the next message from this person as
   spam.

People who are absolutely paranoid would just use

(not white-list)

as the spam predicate.  That is, everybody not on the white-list is
classified as spam.

I'm getting fed up with spam, and I think most of us are.  Let's fight
back. 

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   larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen