Re: Bayes rocks

2005-09-18 Thread jdow
The nasty part is that you pretty much have to generate a per user rule for this. I don't think a rule can expand things like $USER. I have a rule for somebody at earthlink. I have a rule for me at earthlink. I have a rule for several generic people at earthlink. If it is to me and has fewer than

Re: Bayes rocks

2005-09-18 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/16/05, jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are better off to use a normal SpamAssassin meta rule. How so? SA doesn't know how to interpret "not to me" (unless I write a plugin) -- it has no built-in knowledge of, for example, all possible sendmail aliases for my personal account -- and ind

Re: Bayes rocks

2005-09-16 Thread Carlos A. Carnero Delgado
Hi, On 9/16/05, jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And of course, SARE rules are still needed. (Bob, I have a gem for you. > It was Base64 encoded with four characters per line. I suspect it is a > virus. It's .vbe labeled. No WAY I an going to run something from Cuba > with a .vbe suffix on a Wind

Re: Bayes rocks

2005-09-16 Thread jdow
You are better off to use a normal SpamAssassin meta rule. {^_^} - Original Message - From: "Bart Schaefer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 9/16/05, jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes indeedy. And I've been looking at Bayes scores here just a wee bit. BAYES_99 just does not hit on ham and hit

Bayes rocks

2005-09-16 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 9/16/05, jdow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes indeedy. And I've been looking at Bayes scores here just a wee bit. > BAYES_99 just does not hit on ham and hits on high percentages of spam. > Even BAYES_95 does not hit ham. I go down to BAYES_80 before I hit 0.05 > percent of ham. During a two-w

Re: Bayes rocks

2005-09-16 Thread jdow
Yes indeedy. And I've been looking at Bayes scores here just a wee bit. BAYES_99 just does not hit on ham and hits on high percentages of spam. Even BAYES_95 does not hit ham. I go down to BAYES_80 before I hit 0.05 percent of ham. I am toying with the idea of recognizing this feature and tweaking

Re: Bayes rocks

2005-09-16 Thread Matt Kettler
At 08:50 AM 9/16/2005, Pierre Thomson wrote: I am continually amazed at the ability of the Bayesian engine to recognize garbage. Those who think they can "poison" a Bayes DB with meaningless text are deluded. It's the Chi-squared combining rocks, actually.. But yes.. you're right, bayes pois

Bayes rocks

2005-09-16 Thread Pierre Thomson
I am continually amazed at the ability of the Bayesian engine to recognize garbage. Those who think they can "poison" a Bayes DB with meaningless text are deluded. Here's a snip of spamassassin -t on one of today's spams, with nothing but a URL, an inline gif and random words. (SA 2.64) Cont