reverse MCP

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:44:50PM +0100, Julian Field wrote:
> At 21:24 08/09/2004, you wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 09:38:55PM +0200, Remco Barendse wrote:
> >> Why would you want to do that?
> >> I guess it would be easier to create a sort rule in your MUA or create
> >> different mailboxes and subscribe to each mailinglist with a different
> >> e-mail address. I use several mailboxes, especially high volume lists are
> >> extremely annoying to have between your regular mail.
> >Oh, of course that would be very annoying. I already use procmail to
> >filter each list to it's own box, usually based on the List-id: header
> >or equivalent.
> >My interest is in weeding out everything that isn't relevant to me. For
> >instance, and purely for example, if I were subscribed to an extremely
> >high volume list like the linux kernel mailing list I could settup MCP
> >rules and scores for various keywords or phrases of interest to me:
> >specific drivers, filesystems, netfilter changes, etc. Messages with
> >lots of keywords or phrases pertinent to me would score high and
> >messages lacking pertinence would score low. Then I could define ranges
> >of scores in procmailrc to get prioritized mboxes.
> >Julian, does the MCP SA include bayes support? If so it could be trained
> >to recognized the probability of pertinence. :)
> No, fraid not. But I think if you configured it correctly, you should be
> able to force it to put the bayes db files in a different directory, at
> which point you would be able to do it.
> Just never tried it myself...

Ok, thanks. This is just food-for-thought. I'll try it out on my home
system once I get it running, hopefully within the next month.

-Eric Rz.

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