Re: [Q]: How good is gmane for you ?

[Jon Ericson <Jon.Ericson@jpl.nasa.gov>]

[Cross-posting to gmane.discuss where this is on-topic]

deskpot@despammed.com (Vasily Korytov) writes:

> I hate spam too (but I rely only on spamassassin and some header and
> blacklist checks). Unfortunately, gmane spam filters are not good enough
> for me (speaking honestly, they definitely _suck_: e.g. in
> gmane.emacs.xemacs.user.russian they appear to filter legimate mail, but
> pass a lot of spam), so, for some groups I prefer checking spam myself
> -- because gmane may be faster, but _it simply does not filter
> spam_. That almost equivs of having no filter -- which is much
> quicker, may I assure you.

Filtering legitimate mail is a major problem in my opinion.  Have you
noticed which rules falsely label mail as spam?

If I understand correctly, having people actively correct spam
identification problems will help Gmane detect spam more accurately.
I'm not at all surprised that a primarily Russian language group would
have problems, since spam detection is mostly a linguistic problem.
Until people who understand Russian provide feedback, I doubt much
will change.

Jon