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Moderation of -general this week

From
"Greg Sabino Mullane"
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I'm going to New York for business this week, and thus will have
little to no time to moderate. The only list I'm worried about is
- -general, which currently is backlogged with hundreds of messages
in the queue. I'll try to find time to clear it out today, but
we need more mods for this particular list. Some sort of spam filter
would be nice, too. I can't imagine all those mails from
POSTCARDS.RU would be hard to filter out before reaching the
moderation queue. :)

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200801281155
http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8
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Re: Moderation of -general this week

From
"Marc G. Fournier"
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- --On Monday, January 28, 2008 16:58:02 +0000 Greg Sabino Mullane 
<greg@turnstep.com> wrote:

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>
> I'm going to New York for business this week, and thus will have
> little to no time to moderate. The only list I'm worried about is
> - -general, which currently is backlogged with hundreds of messages
> in the queue. I'll try to find time to clear it out today, but
> we need more mods for this particular list. Some sort of spam filter
> would be nice, too. I can't imagine all those mails from
> POSTCARDS.RU would be hard to filter out before reaching the
> moderation queue. :)

How many of those "hundreds" are a result of mods only approvign messages, and 
not taking the time to reject?

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Re: Moderation of -general this week

From
Andrew Sullivan
Date:
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 04:58:02PM -0000, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> we need more mods for this particular list. Some sort of spam filter
> would be nice, too. I can't imagine all those mails from
> POSTCARDS.RU would be hard to filter out before reaching the
> moderation queue. :)

If there were any kind of spam filtering on -general, I would volunteer.  At
the moment, however, I can barely keep up with the lists I already moderate,
partly because of the volume of moderation being done because of spam.  Most
days, for instance, I reject at least a dozen mails written in cyrillic
characters..  I'm willing to bet we could train some Bayesian filter to
reject those before any human were involved.  They're going to get rejected
anyway.

A

Re: Moderation of -general this week

From
"Greg Sabino Mullane"
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> How many of those "hundreds" are a result of mods only approvign 
> messages, and not taking the time to reject?

I would guess few to none, as the ratio of approvable/rejectable stays the 
same, no matter how long I am away, and I never approve without also rejecting 
and clearing out the queue. But to the original question, can we use 
spamassassin and drop on the floor posts with over a score of say, 6?

For example, here is the message at the top of the general queue 
as I write this:

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Return-Path: <owner-pgsql-general-postgresql.org@postgresql.org>
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for<pgsql-general-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org>; Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:26:19 -0400 (AST)
 
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-0400(AST)
 
Received: from [189.133.94.187] by mailforward1.loopia.se; , 27 Jan 2008 21:23:33 -0600
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To: <pgsql-general-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org>
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Both the headers and body are rich with rejection opportunity. :)


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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 200802032232
http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8
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