On 12/05/07, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/12/07, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Wikimedia has a spam filter. It kills the worst
of it. But wikien-l
> still has a pile THIS HIGH in the queue. So I've set the filter to zap
> messages with a spam score over 7. For comparison, humans seem to
> score no more than 2.
Just out of interest, say if I were to initiate a
discussion about an
article relating to Prozac, mentioned the word Prozac a few times in
the mail (as well as once in the header), and gave a link to a site
that I thought was the source of the hypothetical spamming that my
hypothetical mail was complaining about - how would I score? What if I
had a penchant for CAPS and EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!? Seriously, I'm just
curious.
I suppose you could craft a message that was arguably on-topic and
also very likely to be eaten by the spam filter, in which case it
would deserve to be eaten. And if you tended to do that sort of thing
inadvertently, you'd probably be used to having your mail eaten ;-p
- d.