Re: Time to forbid non-subscribers from posting to the list?

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On Aug 08, 2006, at 16:25:16, Lee Revell wrote:
> The spam ratio on LKML is so low that I think this cure would be  
> worse than the disease.  Why can't the minority of LKML readers who  
> have absolutely zero tolerance for spam just filter locally?

Given the volume of valid email on the LKML it took me all of 3 days  
to get a fresh install of my mail client's bayes filter trained to a  
<5% false negative rate and a <0.5% false positive rate.   
Theoretically a similarly tuned bayes filter on vger with a web- 
interface for people to vote on spamminess would allow us to fix any  
remaining problems; but the spam levels are so low already; why bother?

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett