Peter Hansen wrote: > Lucas Raab wrote: >> <snip> > [...] >> Y'know, I really do love these random word spam messages. They're >> quite entertaining to read. > > Although, when posting in reply to them it apparently helps those who > read this through the mailing list, and who have Bayesian filtering of > spam happening, if you would snip the entire content. > > Otherwise it can confuse the spam blockers since they have your name > generally associated with useful messages (I presume ;-) ) instead of > with spam. You're messin' with their statistics, man! ;-)
Absolutely. Another example of where these things can mess with Spambayes is people replying to XL and correcting his horrendous troll-posts. It makes it really hard for Spambayes to determine that *anything* coming from XL is spam. Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
