On 5/12/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/05/07, Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/12/07, David Gerard dgerard@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
Right. :-) But I did mean my mail in all (or mostly) seriousness that there could be a legitimate mail that would trigger the spam filter. I was wondering where the line was - though I suppose an answer to my mail might lend itself towards trollspam. ;-)
Cormac