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[David Relson]

At 04:59 PM 5/25/03, Michael Rensing wrote:
>I've been a lurker on this list since it was created. I had hoped to be
>able to contribute, but must confess that this project has grown far
>beyond any of my skills in programming or statistical methods.
>
>I'm still using bogofilter as part of my campaign against spam, though,
>and am finding it a little difficult to understand how to use it
>efficiently. My questions are not necessarily suitable for a developer's
>discussion, so I'd like to make the following suggestion.
>
>If Adrain wouldn't mind administering another list, wouldn't it make
>sense to create a [bogofilter-users] list? I know that I'm no longer
>able to follow most of the discussions on statistical methods or the
>programming. However, I still retain a strong interest in keeping a
>current version of bogofilter running.
>
>It seems to me that there are two main groups on the bogofilter list;
>those who are developing code and analyzing statistical methods for
>improving code, and those who don't really understand it but would like
>to find an effective tool against spam regardless of how it works.
>Moving the second group to another list would hopefully increase the
>signal-to-noise for both groups, and possibly even contribute to wider
>acceptance of bogofilter.

Hello Michael,

This mailing list, like most all others I know, has a problem staying on 
topic and within its charter.  Bogofilter has two primary mailing lists - 
this one (bogofilter at aotto.com) and the developer's list 
(bogofilter-dev at aotto.com).

Ideally messages are posted to the proper list and comments follow the 
original subject and remain appropriate to the list.  In practical use, 
posts aren't always to the proper list and follow-up messages have 
subject/content drift that can cause a thread to "belong" on the other 
list.  Certainly I have done this many times and will likely do it again.

With luck, most messages are on the proper list.  Short of running 
moderated lists (which isn't going to happen with these lists), that's the 
best that can be done.

I hope this helps, but have my doubts :-(

David