Re: ifile or similar

[spamtrap@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

On 18 Aug 2002 20:47:18 GMT, Christopher Browne wrote:

>> I guess the easiest would just be to have procmail/something add an
>> X-header and have Gnus split on that.
[...]

> If you take that approach, I suggest that you have a _lot_ more than
> just one spam category.  There is little reason to expect "phone
> sex" ads to be particularly similar to "Nigerian financial scams" or
> for either to strongly resemble ads about enlarging sexual organs.
> If you put them all together in one folder, that will muddy
> discrimination.

Really? Paul Grahams recent article "A Plan for Spam" seems to
indicate otherwise:

 http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

(which is where I found a pointer to ifile). I don't know if ifile
works exactly as Paul Grahams scheme, though. An elisp implementation
of that would be even more fun... :-)

I was thinking of making nonspam, spam and virus. Virus-emails seem to
me to be likely to have a different "pattern".

> You want better results?  Set up several folders; nnml:pyramid,
> nnml:snakeoil, nnml:creditcards, nnml:gambling, nnml:porn, and such.

That would defeat the purpose of not spending time on spam (if I have
to sort my entire backlog of spam into categories first).


  Best wishes,

-- 
 "Fra én som sover for lidt,                                   Adam Sjøgren
  som synes verden er stor"                               asjo@koldfront.dk