Re: We need two different buttons for reporting spam.

[Raquel <raquel@thericehouse.net>]

On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:48:33 -0500
"Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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 :-)
> 
> 

And what about the rest of us, the non-"savvy users"?  Do we get to
risk "making debian-users an empty list"?

-- 
Raquel
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