[cw-discuss] Web Forum Poll

[Matt Wilkie]

Jeremy Newman:
> ...The main reason for not implementing inbound email is spam.
> There just is not a good way to prevent forum spam from email. ...

ummm, just use the same method as the email list?

Or perhaps the email list is unprotected and the only reason I don't
see any here is because I've only been reading it via gmail. In which
case: create a crossover-forums gmail account, register it to the
mailing list, enable pop3 download from crossover-forums at gmail.com,
set up a bot to download from that account to the forums. Voila, no
spam (or at least a greatly reduced volume).

If you want to get really creative, set up a local bayesian filter to
route incoming messages to the relevant forums, and vice versa. Read
about such a setup (without technical details unfortunately) from Joel
on Software:

"Bayesian filtering is really just a specialization of a long
established AI algorithm for sorting documents based on training, and
we thought, gosh, why not generalize the algorithm so that in addition
to sorting incoming email into "spam," "suspect," and "ham," it also
sorted all the ham into piles, for example, "sales," "tech support,"
and "job applications"?"
-- http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogBugzII.html

William Bagwell:
>Perhaps Matt Wilkie will write that grand unified web-mail-news
>app some day;-) Open source of course!

you've obviously never seen my (attempts at) code!
...however whatever I do write which escapes the confines of my
computer is open source. It's the only way it has even the faintest
1-in-a-billion chance of achieving something useful. :)

cheers,

-- 
-matt