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In article <4nagtd$b3t@junior.wariat.org>,
catfood@junior.wariat.org (Mark W. Schumann) wrote:
>I believe that for purposes of spam and velveeta deterrence we should
>follow generally accepted with standard Usenet practice: flame the small
>ones and cancel the large (BI >= 20) ones. 

I agree with most of what you said, but I would like to point out that it is
common practice to also cancel articles posted to 20 groups or more.  While
the BI is a good measure, it is quite restrictive and really only hits the more
sophisticated type of spam.  The spam filter I'm working on looks for both
BI and number of crossposts.  Very little gets caught by the BI, yet about
75% of spams get caught by the 20 or more newsgroups rule.  Since it
is a smaller feed, it is becoming quite a task actually testing out the BI
portion of it.

If you think I'm being too restrictive, my original thought was to hit 10 or
more crossposts.  Nothing pisses me off worse than coming back from a
four day business trip and waste more time going through spam than 
actually reading any news actually relating to any of the groups I read.

John
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