From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46215 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:57:19 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87d6sf42ys.fsf@emacswiki.org> <871y8u7un8.fsf@emacswiki.org> <87fzxa7ala.fsf@emacswiki.org> <87d6se9dsy.fsf@emacswiki.org> <87vg637hvh.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 1030039076 1532 127.0.0.1 (22 Aug 2002 17:57:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:57:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org 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 17hwDS-0000Ob-00 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:57:54 +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 17hwDn-0001dv-00; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:58:15 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:58:46 -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 MAA01016 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:58:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 18925 invoked by alias); 22 Aug 2002 17:57:52 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18920 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2002 17:57:52 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 22 Aug 2002 17:57:52 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g7MHvPb11893; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:57:25 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id TAA03801; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:57:19 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 6336F3B1FE; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 19:57:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Alex Schroeder Mail-Followup-To: Alex Schroeder , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Thu, 22 Aug 2002 12:57:45 -0400") Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46215 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46215 Ted Zlatanov writes: > For new incoming spam, should we *also* run the spam analysis on a > buffer that we think is spam, or is the spam analysis only for buffers > that the user explicitly marks as spam? I started to compose an answer saying yes. Then I thought about it and deleted it and started to compose an answer saying no. Then I changed my mind again... and then I figured that this is a nontrivial question. Maybe the folks over at comp.theory.info-retrieval know more about this? There should be some experts hanging out there. kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)