Workflow Systems

[process.business]

Workflow Systems
Workflow is an essential element of business process management (BPM).
http://flying-rugs.com/business-process-management/Workflow.html

 

[Dr.Ruud]

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management.business:

[ snip multiposted message ]

This message has been multiposted as indicated by these message IDs:
<<
Multiposting is generally considered impolite in usenet. For an
explanation, please see:

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html

I would learn the bot to only react on multi-postings limited to (for
example) the perl.* and comp.lang.*.
Most of the times there are exactly 2 postings, maybe use that too.

And increase the set of the newsgroups that it checks, to find out if
the same message is also posted outside the community.
This to minimize replies on spam.

 

[usenet]

This to minimize replies on spam.

Hmmm. Spam almost always has a web URL in it. I don't remember ever
seeing a newbie multipost that contained an URL. Looking for a web URL
in the message body might be a more reliable filter to avoid responding
to spam.

 

[Dr.Ruud]

(e-mail address removed) schreef:

Dr.Ruud:

Hmmm. Spam almost always has a web URL in it. I don't remember ever
seeing a newbie multipost that contained an URL. Looking for a web
URL in the message body might be a more reliable filter to avoid
responding to spam.

Or use both.

 

[usenet]

Looking for a web URL in the message body might be a more reliable
filter to avoid responding to spam.

That was a quick and easy little tweak to make, and I think it will
work nearly all of the time.

The bot ignores cutlines and below (if the cutlines are properly
formatted: /^-- $/). I could see where a real multiposter might have an
URL in his tag (so he'll still get flagged), but I think spam will have
URLs in the message body (I think some newsreaders can be configured to
not display tags, and spammers wouldn't want that).