linux-kernel - Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc

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Message-Id: <1159804137.4067.144.camel@mindpipe>
Date:	Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:48:57 -0400
From:	Lee Revell <rlrevell@...-job.com>
To:	"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@...igh.org>
Cc:	Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@...iler.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 08:24 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> > Could a heuristic be added to reject messages with wildly incorrect
> > dates?  I notice that the last 5-10 messages in my LKML folder every
> > morning are spam with a date that's ~24 hours in the future.
> 
> If you got rid of "slut" and "schoolgirl" that'd get rid of half of
> it. 

That will work for a day then they'll just change the spelling.  But
I've seen spammers using incorrect dates (presumably to appear at the
beginning or end of a mailbox) for years.

You could also flag a very short message that contains a URL and is not
a reply to an existing thread - I can't think of a legitimate post to
LKML fitting this pattern.

I would hate to see the list closed as that would amount to surrendering
to the spammers.

Lee

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