[darcs-users] darcs-users moderation: opinions (and a moderator) sought

[kirstin penelope rhys]

On Friday 01 December 2006 10:35, David Roundy wrote:
> Is dspam that much more effective than spamassassin? It has the
> disadvantage of not being packaged for debian sarge, which is what the
> server is running.  The many spams that are needing to be moderated are all
> rated below 5 by spamassassin.  And the darcs-devel moderator is also
> finding the spam hard to keep up with.  But we get (on darcs-devel) one
> unique non-member posting a month, which our moderator considers worth
> leaving it open for (and I agree).

It's far, far more effective--I'm getting 99.44% after just two weeks, with no 
corpus training. It's several orders of magnitude better than heuristic 
filters. And, dspam has been backported (http://backports.org) to sarge, 
which is how I'm using it.

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