Re: List moderation - need a break!

On 6/16/09, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Dave Page wrote:
>> On 6/16/09, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Dave Page wrote:
>> >
>> >> That doesn't help much because SA is configured globally, not per
>> >> list. Unless Marc changed that.
>> >
>> > You might still be able to get some utility out of it just by including
>> > only the languages at least one list accepts traffic in. You'll still
>> > assign points to all the spam that doesn't match any list's native
>> > language.
>>
>> We have a Russian list, so the majority of spam would still get
>> through. However, it's a spam filter thats part of the hub.org mail
>> system, which (unfortunately) means it's not just languages that we
>> use that matter.
>
> Is there really no way to say "if it's russian, and not in
> pgsql-ru-whatever, add 5 points to spam score"?
>
> If that's not possible, maybe we could have a rule "add 5 points if
> russian", and another "subtract 5 points if destined for pgsql-ru-blah"

Its possible Marc can hack that in, but afaik, the SA instances are on
dedicated VM's and are simple relays with no knowledge of
postgresql.org, mj2 or any other servers or domains.

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Dave Page
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