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Date:      Fri, 4 Sep 1998 16:15:45 -0400
From:      Tim Vanderhoek <ac199@hwcn.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Yoav Cohen-Sivan <ycs@netvision.net.il>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Better SNR suggestion for the mailing lists
Message-ID:  <19980904161545.A263@zappo>
In-Reply-To: <2543.904882634@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 09:17:14PM -0700
References:  <35EF0C6D.C3ACAD5F@netvision.net.il> <2543.904882634@time.cdrom.com>

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On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 09:17:14PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> I'm all in favor of trying that out, myself.  I think it's time, at
> least for lists like -hackers.  Lists like questions can and should
> remain fully open.

Don't.  If you really want to try it out, go for a couple months trial
period where, instead of removing messages, messages are tagged with a
"This message would have been filtered if..." tag.  Obviously, this is
a much more benign way of measuring the potential benefit:harm ratio.

It certainly would be interesting.  A lot of posts from John Dyson
recently would have been tagged.  More recently, one from Kirk
McKusick would have been tagged, too.

More interesting, I (completely, 100% believe), would be the number of
messages _not_ tagged.


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