We need two different buttons for reporting spam.
On the archives at http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ , there is a
button titled "Report as Spam." My understanding is that it's connected
to a Bayesian filter and that is arranges for the spam message to be
removed from the archives.
I think this button's functionality should be split into two buttons
because the list is being hit by spam that poison bayesian filters.
An example is http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/09/msg00748.html
. That message contains a small amount of advertising test with a large
amount for normal speech text. Anyone reporting that message as spam
would end up poisoning the filters and thus causing normal messages to
be flagged as spam.
Therefore, we need two buttons "Report as Spam (by Type)" and "Report as
Spam (Individually)". The "Report as Spam (by Type)" would send the spam
message to the bayesian filters and delete it from the archives, but the
"Report as Spam (Individually)" would only arrange for the spam message
to be deleted. This allows savvy users to eliminate spam without risking
making debian-users an empty list :-)
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