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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Purge of Inactive Users with Zero Posts and Other Anti-spam Measures Post 303023528 by Neo on Tuesday 18th of September 2018 11:10:25 PM
Old 09-19-2018
Purge of Inactive Users with Zero Posts and Other Anti-spam Measures

In order to keep the site "clean, safe and warm", I have recently purged all accounts at UNIX.COM which meet the ALL of the following 3 criteria:
  • No user activity in 2018
  • No posts (zero post count)
  • Link in user profile.

In addition, I purged all users who registered but never confirmed their email address.

Also, instead of relying on flawed or inaccurate anti-spam databases or spam classifiers, I am manually inspecting new users in our database and we will actively delete users who are obviously registering on the site only to spam and/or post links to spammy sites.

The reason for this change is that anti-spam databases and anti-spam classifiers sometime block legitimate new users. We do not want any legitimate user with a UNIX/Linux problem (and an emergency need to be solve or helped) to be blocked. "AI' methods (Bayesian classifiers, ANN (artificial neural networks), etc ) are not really 100% reliable for blocking users and spam, and I don't want UNIX.COM to be dominated by "Bad AI" or "AI Gone Mad", so we are going to manage this directly in our database and will delete all new registered users who are obviously spammers.

UNIX.COM is fighting back against "bad AI' and so we will use humans, not machines, to manage user registration and spam until further notice.

Thank you as always for being a UNIX.COM team member.

Resist Bad AI (RBAI)
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Mail::Message::Wrapper::SpamAssassin(3pm)		User Contributed Perl Documentation		 Mail::Message::Wrapper::SpamAssassin(3pm)

NAME
Mail::Message::Wrapper::SpamAssassin - Connect a Mail::Message with Mail::SpamAssassin INHERITANCE
Mail::Message::Wrapper::SpamAssassin is a Mail::SpamAssassin::Message SYNOPSIS
# WARNING: requires OLD SpamAssassion 2.x, not the new 3.x # See Mail::Box::Search::SpamAssassin for the preferred interface # However, it is possible to do: my $msg = ...; # some Mail::Message object my $sa = Mail::Message::Wrapper::SpamAssassin->new($msg); my $spam = Mail::SpamAssassin->new; my $status = $spam->check($sa); $msg->label(spam => 1) if $status->is_spam; $status->rewrite_mail; # Adds spam lines to header DESCRIPTION
WARNING: This module only works with the old version of SpamAssassin: version 2.x. The newer 3.x releases have changed the way that messages are kept. Please contribute improved code. The "Mail::Message::Wrapper::SpamAssassin" class --sorry for the long package name-- is a wrapper around Mail::SpamAssassin::Message, which is an interface to the spam checking software of Mail::SpamAssassin. METHODS
Mail::Message::Wrapper::SpamAssassin->new(MESSAGE, OPTIONS) Creates a wrapper around the MESSAGE. The already present fields from a previous run of Spam::Assassin (or probably fake lines) are removed first. SEE ALSO
This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.105, built on May 07, 2012. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/ LICENSE
Copyrights 2001-2012 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html perl v5.14.2 2012-05-07 Mail::Message::Wrapper::SpamAssassin(3pm)
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