At 12:33 AM 5/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 17 May 1999, Richard H.C. Seabrook wrote:
>> I'm working on a tool for list managers to use to help detect and avoid
>> distribution of spam and other problem messages.
>
>Dissertation, hmm?  You working on a doctorate in comp. sci. maybe?

Information Systems, actually -- although a few CS folk have been
interested in my content-sensitive filtering scheme.

>The spam filter don't need, got my own set up with standard list
>header settings.

I'm trying to use content to avoid the tricks spammers pull with bogus
From: addresses and Subject: lines.  I've not seen any that include
specific, relevant content in order to get past a filter.


>  The "other" though might bce interesting.  Would
>that include replies with excessive quoting, either an outright rejection
>or stripping out the quoting (former prefered)?

Could do that -- easiest if the sender's client includes a marker like ">"
at the beginning of each line, of course.  My current plan is to provide
all the stuff, sorted and ranked to the manager for the rejection decision,
although it would be easy for a manager with confidence in the tool to
reject stuff without having to look at it.  I'm a little reluctant to have
the tool just dump stuff without any means of review by the manager if it's
desired.
Dick S.

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