On 30/09/2005, at 9:50 AM, Delaney, Timothy (Tim) wrote: > You have to admit though, he's remarkably good at getting past > Spambayes. Despite classifying *every* Xah Lee post as spam, he still > manages to get most of his posts classified as 0% or 1% spam.
I can't believe that people are using c.l.p trolls as justification in their push to add white/black-listing to spambayes now <wink>. I expect that if you look at the clues for such messages, you'll find that any 'Xah Lee' clues are swamped by lots of 'c.l.p message' clues. A big problem with filtering mailing lists at the user end (rather than before the post is accepted) is that the mailing software adds so many strongly-correlated clues. It's made worse because he uses so many words that you'd expect to find in legitimate c.l.p messages. To fight this sort of message, I think spambayes would have to be able to understand the context more. =Tony.Meyer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
