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era+gmane | 4 Mar 2004 09:38

Multiple spam reports from same source

If the same IP address reports the same message as spam multiple
times, perhaps the duplicates could simply be ignored?

While it's technically possible that these will in fact be independent
reports from two different users behind, say, a NAT gateway, it is in
practice extremely unlikely, and even then, there is no real loss if
the duplicates are simply ditched.

These show up in the Gmane spam approval interface as if they were
completely unrelated. There's also something funny about how the
number of reports per IP address are calculated for these cases.

I know I sometimes report the same spam multiple times because I screw
up, or because I get an error for one of the messages when doing a
large batch, and then I'm not sure which one gave the error. (This is
a bug in my own reporting process but I'm sure others have similar
issues because there are lots of duplicates from other IP addresses,
too.)

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Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker | 4 Mar 2004 10:10

Re: Multiple spam reports from same source

era+gmane <at> iki.fi writes:

> I know I sometimes report the same spam multiple times because I screw
> up, or because I get an error for one of the messages when doing a
> large batch, and then I'm not sure which one gave the error. (This is
> a bug in my own reporting process but I'm sure others have similar
> issues because there are lots of duplicates from other IP addresses,
> too.)

I have spam-report-gmane-current bound to C-c s and occasionaly report
the same article twice if I get distracted just after reporting it (as
in, I forget whether I pressed 'C-c s' or 'd' on it when seing it marked
as read and the cursor on the next article).

Another thing: how does the approval interface handle subsequent
spam/unspam reports on the same article (from both the same and
different IPs)? I occasionally misreport articles (the hand is faster
than the eye) and have to unreport them with my browser (which runs on
another machine than gnus).

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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen | 4 Mar 2004 21:33

Re: Multiple spam reports from same source

ilmari <at> ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) writes:

> Another thing: how does the approval interface handle subsequent
> spam/unspam reports on the same article (from both the same and
> different IPs)? I occasionally misreport articles (the hand is faster
> than the eye) and have to unreport them with my browser (which runs on
> another machine than gnus).

If you report them from the same machine, they'll cancel each other
out.  If not, there'll just be the one spam report.  I think.  Or
will there be an unspam report as well?

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Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker | 5 Mar 2004 13:11

Re: Multiple spam reports from same source

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> ilmari <at> ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) writes:
>
>> Another thing: how does the approval interface handle subsequent
>> spam/unspam reports on the same article (from both the same and
>> different IPs)? I occasionally misreport articles (the hand is faster
>> than the eye) and have to unreport them with my browser (which runs on
>> another machine than gnus).
>
> If you report them from the same machine, they'll cancel each other
> out.

Okay. I'll just make spam-report-gmane-current unreport when given a
prefix arg so that I can properly undo bogus spam reports.

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