# But wait! There's more! Just 3 easy payments of eleventy dollars! pew pew pew! **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [June 24, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/but-wait-theres-more-just-3-easy-payments-of-eleventy-dollars-pew-pew-pew/170913 "2009-06-24T04:31:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aguynamedryan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/but-wait-theres-more-just-3-easy-payments-of-eleventy-dollars-pew-pew-pew/170913/1 "2009-06-24T04:31:17Z")
dinner break is over… back to the “grind”! ---
**Author:** ![aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aguynamedryan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/but-wait-theres-more-just-3-easy-payments-of-eleventy-dollars-pew-pew-pew/170913/2 "2009-06-24T14:08:53Z")
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:30:43 -0500, Ryan D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > dinner break is over… back to the “grind”! Whew – glad I checked the author before adding the sender to my spam filter! Can’t afford to lose all of Ryan D.'s future Ruby posts. But that was a close one! – Benjamin L. Russell ---
**Author:** ![aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aguynamedryan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/but-wait-theres-more-just-3-easy-payments-of-eleventy-dollars-pew-pew-pew/170913/3 "2009-06-24T15:07:44Z")
On 24 Jun 2009, at 13:05, Benjamin L. Russell wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:30:43 -0500, Ryan D. > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > dinner break is over… back to the “grind”! > > Whew – glad I checked the author before adding the sender to my spam > filter! Can’t afford to lose all of Ryan D.'s future Ruby posts. > But that was a close one! I had to dig that one out of my spam folder. I guess “3 easy payments” and “grind” were too much for it’s poor little bayesian filter. Ellie ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains [http://slides.games-with-brains.net](http://slides.games-with-brains.net) raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason ---
**Author:** ![aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aguynamedryan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/but-wait-theres-more-just-3-easy-payments-of-eleventy-dollars-pew-pew-pew/170913/4 "2009-06-24T20:05:56Z")
On Jun 24, 2009, at 06:06 , Eleanor McHugh wrote: > I had to dig that one out of my spam folder. I guess “3 easy > payments” and “grind” were too much for it’s poor little bayesian > filter. clearly it was “eleventy” and “pew pew pew”. sure signs of spam. DAMNIT. I did it again. ---
**Author:** ![aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aguynamedryan)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/but-wait-theres-more-just-3-easy-payments-of-eleventy-dollars-pew-pew-pew/170913/5 "2009-06-25T05:00:40Z")
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:10:33 -0500, Robert D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > Whew – glad I checked the author before adding the sender to my spam > > filter! Can’t afford to lose all of Ryan D.'s future Ruby posts. > > But that was a close one! > > Do you mean they do _not_ go to the SPAM folder??? > 😉 I don’t trust Bayesian filtering, so I prefer not to use it. Instead, using a newsreader called Forte’ Agent 5.0 (see [Agent 8 + Usenet](http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php)) (on Windows XP), I usually sort NNTP messages from comp.lang.ruby using USENET filters, which filter and delete according to e-mail address. Therefore, I usually manually add e-mail addresses to this filter. Setting up filters is more time-consuming than using Bayesian filtering, but avoids accidentally filtering spam-like messages that aren’t actually spam (such as the message that is the topic of this thread). Once an e-mail address is added, all future messages from that recipient on that newsgroup are automatically deleted without notice. Of course, I could alternatively read the mailing list ruby-talk instead of the newsgroup comp.lang.ruby, and then spam would be automatically filtered by the settings on my e-mail account, which are more sophisticated than simple Bayesian filtering, but I prefer to use a common interface for all my USENET messages, and not all newsgroups are linked to a mailing list. – Benjamin L. Russell ---
**Author:** ![aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aguynamedryan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/but-wait-theres-more-just-3-easy-payments-of-eleventy-dollars-pew-pew-pew/170913/6 "2009-06-24T22:10:57Z")
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Benjamin L. Russell \ wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:30:43 -0500, Ryan D. > [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > > dinner break is over… back to the “grind”! > > Whew – glad I checked the author before adding the sender to my spam > filter! Can’t afford to lose all of Ryan D.'s future Ruby posts. > But that was a close one! Do you mean they do _not_ go to the SPAM folder??? 😉 Robert ---
**Author:** ![aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@aguynamedryan](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aguynamedryan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/but-wait-theres-more-just-3-easy-payments-of-eleventy-dollars-pew-pew-pew/170913/7 "2009-06-24T20:50:32Z")
On 24 Jun 2009, at 19:04, Ryan D. wrote: > > > But that was a close one! > > > > I had to dig that one out of my spam folder. I guess “3 easy > > payments” and “grind” were too much for it’s poor little bayesian > > filter. > > clearly it was “eleventy” surely that was just a typo for “twelvety”… local spam for local people 😉 Ellie ## Eleanor McHugh Games With Brains [http://slides.games-with-brains.net](http://slides.games-with-brains.net) raise ArgumentError unless @reality.responds\_to? :reason