Paragon Looks To Upstream Their Microsoft exFAT Driver For The Linux Kernel

[ssokolow]

Well, it does make some sense that positive comments are more likely to get flagged as potential spam, since spammers generally don't describe their products as "a retarded fuckstick", however appropriate it might be.

Do you often see spam peddling shoddily-designed dildos? :P

Seriously, though, we really need smarter anti-spam. For example, something that's better at taking into account the kinds of links that a post contains.

For one of my own sites, I'm planning to have a system which sends messages direct to the "ham" (jargon for non-spam) corpus (with the option to manually re-file them later) unless they meet a certain standard for suspiciousness, which can include things like "has URLs" and "contains keywords like SEO" but ignores things such as URLs on a whitelist of "sufficiently moderated URL types". (eg. Wikipedia article URLs, IMDB entries, etc.)

To ease adding things to the whitelist, I'll have it tally up the domains that are getting linked to and produce a monthly report of un-whitelisted URLs showing up in non-spam messages.

To deal with the kinds of obfuscation Disqus spammers seem to like, I'll use some Rust code (for high-performance text processing) and the Unicode tables to catch messages which use characters from an abnormally broad range of scripts and then use the TR39 skeleton algorithm before feeding the message into the spam analysis to defeat such obfuscation.

Hell, if abusive language becomes a problem, I might have some fun trolling the trolls with a "glory days of 4chan"-style phrase-substitution filter which replaces profanity with formal antonyms like "fine gentleman" even as it pings me to review the message.

[smitty3268]

I will strongly prefer the kernel developers to improve on Microsoft's driver than use other implementations.

Just because exFAT is Microsoft's filesystem and their code is the reference implementation of exFAT.

You never know what kind of quirks or strange behavior could result from third-party implementations under very fringe or rare situations.

Are you under the impression that MS has open-sourced their exFAT driver, and that it's available for linux?

I'm pretty sure neither of those is true. They only said they wouldn't sue people for patent infringement if they wanted to add exFAT support to linux.