[Ilugc] Any takers for this project?
- From: rmathews@xxxxxxxxx (Roshan Mathews)
- Date: Sun Oct 26 22:51:49 2008
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Raman.P <raamanp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a project idea as follows:
The software should watch my mails from a mailing list.
If a thread which doesn't contain
Anything relavant to FOSS like linux,open source, ilug, software freedom
etc., ( I can give a list of key words to look for)
and if thread length exceeds 5 [ a user tunable number]
then it temporarily unsubscribes me from list.
It should watch the list( by looking at archives), ensure that
the no activity is there in the thread atleast for 2 (again tunable) days
and reactivate the subscription.
Assuming you aren't being sarcastic (in which case, ha-ha you got me!)
this can probably be done with a spam filter. Train it on the corpus
of the list to be able to be distinguish between OT and ham mails.
Then you can just tie that in with your mail setup to delete or mark
as spam the OT mails. Subscribing and unsubscribing is not what you
want to be doing, you just want to improve the SNR of the lists you
subscribe to.
This is an interesting project for a student, not a final semester
degree project, but a fun hack. You should post your results to the
list if you do go through with it.
--
Roshan Mathews
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