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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by RobertMiller on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:01AM (#30698939)
> Surely you could have small bayesian engines running in each client,

If each client has a copy of the filter, then so does the spammer. The spammer can use that to craft spam the filter doesn't catch.

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by toyg on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:12AM (#30699075)
The lack of filter availability doesn't stop spammers bypassing even Google's uber-filters, so it's not much of an argument really. The arm race is what it is. The point is having a system that can react fast enough to remove the spam from most systems once it is identified.
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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by RobertMiller on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:20AM (#30699151)
> The point is having a system that can react fast enough to remove the spam from most systems once it is identified.

Then you need a system for distributing filter updates, and preventing the spammers from distributing bogus filter updates. Isn't this basically just the same problem as before?

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Re:BiglyBT is a feature filled, open source, ad-free, BitTor... by toyg on Wednesday March 16, 2022 @10:30AM (#30699272)
That's why I said that injecting some modern consensus-finding strategies could be an idea.
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