Digests vs. Shared Bayes (was Re: Default Bayes Database)

2013-05-13 Thread David F. Skoll
On Mon, 13 May 2013 22:18:16 +0200 Benny Pedersen wrote: > sorry it was not mean to be so, i just like to learn more about why > bayes is better then other digest solotions already shared in > spamassassin Bayes tends to be a little bit harder to fool than digests. Although fuzzy digests do the

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-13 Thread Benny Pedersen
Kevin A. McGrail skrev den 2013-05-13 15:14: i think David missed one more word, no share ? Perhaps but David was debating the usability of a shared database and offered his input as a commercial vendor as well as access to his concepts to the development team. I've always like MIMEDefang an

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-13 Thread David F. Skoll
On Sat, 11 May 2013 16:28:16 +0200 Benny Pedersen wrote: > i think David missed one more word, no share ? OK, here's my point. In 2004, I was as skeptical as most others on this list that a shared Bayes database would be useful. Then I read the USENIX LISA '04 paper by Blosser and Josephsen th

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-13 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 5/11/2013 10:28 AM, Benny Pedersen wrote: Bob Proulx skrev den 2013-05-11 01:06: No sale. Your database sounds just simply wonderful. Where can I download this database so that I can start using it? i think David missed one more word, no share ? Perhaps but David was debating the usabil

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-11 Thread Benny Pedersen
Axb skrev den 2013-05-11 16:21: On 05/11/2013 04:14 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: south rules south lines ? do you mean bikini lines? ritter sport -- senders that put my email into body content will deliver it to my own trashcan, so if you like to get reply, dont do it

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-11 Thread Benny Pedersen
Bob Proulx skrev den 2013-05-11 01:06: No sale. Your database sounds just simply wonderful. Where can I download this database so that I can start using it? i think David missed one more word, no share ? -- senders that put my email into body content will deliver it to my own trashcan, so

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-11 Thread Benny Pedersen
David F. Skoll skrev den 2013-05-10 23:49: No sale. good or bad ? :) -- senders that put my email into body content will deliver it to my own trashcan, so if you like to get reply, dont do it

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-11 Thread Axb
On 05/11/2013 04:14 PM, Benny Pedersen wrote: south rules south lines ? do you mean bikini lines?

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-11 Thread Benny Pedersen
David F. Skoll skrev den 2013-05-10 21:51: Anyway, my main point is this: Don't dismiss a shared Bayes database without supplying evidence that it's a bad idea. :) if its so good why not create south rules from it ? :) i like to try it, if bayes_99 dump south lines rule set from this mail --

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-10 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 10 May 2013 15:52:01 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin wrote: > > Anyway, my main point is this: Don't dismiss a shared Bayes database > > without supplying evidence that it's a bad idea. :) > Care to share your database? :) Ah... hmm. :) I would be happy to share it with SA developers who might

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-10 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 17:49 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > Right; pretend you're a salesperson trying to sell an anti-spam product. > "Oh, you just have to go through your old mailbox and classify a few > hundred messages by hand... then the system will work great!" > > No sale. Most likely, and

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-10 Thread Bob Proulx
David F. Skoll wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > And would you suggest distributing your well-averaged database to > > people who install SpamAssassin to as to seed their Bayes? > > We have a distribution mechanism built into our software. > > > I think having users start with a blank slate and then

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-10 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 10 May 2013, David F. Skoll wrote: Anyway, my main point is this: Don't dismiss a shared Bayes database without supplying evidence that it's a bad idea. :) Care to share your database? :) -- John Hardin KA7OHZhttp://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ jhar...@impsec.org

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-10 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 17:58 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2013 23:14:36 +0200 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > We (probably) have a much larger sample population, so this tends not > to be as much of a problem for us. This thread is about a default Bayes database, suitable f

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-10 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 10 May 2013 23:14:36 +0200 Karsten Bräckelmann wrote: > I happened to be the lucky recipient of specific spam campaigns in > languages I do not speak. Campaign referring to quite a few samples > during a specific, relatively short time period. This definitely > happened with French, Spani

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-10 Thread David F. Skoll
On Fri, 10 May 2013 15:34:13 -0600 Bob Proulx wrote: > The weasel words "agrees substantially" is telling. If it isn't 100% > with no false positives then at least one of those messages does not > agree. That would be the evidence requested. > I am not saying that your technique isn't useful.

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-10 Thread Bob Proulx
David F. Skoll wrote: > Axb wrote: > > - your HAM is somebody else's SPAM > > Do you have evidence for that? The reason I ask is that one of the > main features of our (commercial) anti-spam solution is a very large > Bayes database. Once a night, we aggregate all the tokens from votes from > al

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-10 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Fri, 2013-05-10 at 15:51 -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > On Wed, 08 May 2013 19:32:26 +0200 Axb wrote: > > > - your HAM is somebody else's SPAM > > Do you have evidence for that? Evidence... examples, rather. I happened to be the lucky recipient of specific spam campaigns in languages I do n

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-10 Thread David F. Skoll
On Wed, 08 May 2013 19:32:26 +0200 Axb wrote: > - your HAM is somebody else's SPAM Do you have evidence for that? The reason I ask is that one of the main features of our (commercial) anti-spam solution is a very large Bayes database. Once a night, we aggregate all the tokens from votes from a

RE: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-10 Thread Andrew Talbot
. So here goes!! Thanks for all your help. > -Original Message- > From: Karsten Bräckelmann [mailto:guent...@rudersport.de] > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 8:18 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Default Bayes Database > > On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 14

RE: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-09 Thread a . smith
Hi, why don't you collect a selection of spam and ham emails prior to go live and use them to train the Bayes DB prior to go live. Then you have a Bayes DB trained to your own data at time of go live... thanks, Andy. Quoting Andrew Talbot : Well, I certainly hope someone offers to help! I

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-09 Thread Anthony Cartmell
As we've spoken about off-list, my boss is being very particular about the deployment of Bayes, and it sounds like one of his caveats is that we don't start from a blank database. Starting from a blank database is quickest and safest. If you start from someone else's database, your Bayes en

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-08 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 14:09 -0400, Andrew Talbot wrote: > Well, I certainly hope someone offers to help! Heh! I am really confident, Alex didn't mean to be rude, neither that he actually hopes no one will help you. Quite the contrary... He DID try to help you by explaining why a "

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-08 Thread Axb
On 05/08/2013 08:15 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: Andrew Talbot wrote: Well, I certainly hope someone offers to help! If only to say "there is no default database." There is no default database. :-) As we've spoken about off-list, my boss is being very particular about the deployment of Bayes, and

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Andrew Talbot wrote: > Well, I certainly hope someone offers to help! > > If only to say "there is no default database." There is no default database. :-) > As we've spoken about off-list, my boss is being very particular about the > deployment of Bayes, and it sounds like one of his caveats

RE: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-08 Thread Andrew Talbot
ing. > -Original Message- > From: Axb [mailto:axb.li...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 1:32 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: Re: Default Bayes Database > > On 05/08/2013 07:26 PM, Andrew Talbot wrote: > > Hey all - > > >

Re: Default Bayes Database

2013-05-08 Thread Axb
On 05/08/2013 07:26 PM, Andrew Talbot wrote: Hey all - I remember seeing somewhere that there was a default Bayes database for Bayes to start using right away, but can't seem to find that information again on the Wiki or in my notes. Can someone please help? I hope nobody offers to

Default Bayes Database

2013-05-08 Thread Andrew Talbot
Hey all - I remember seeing somewhere that there was a default Bayes database for Bayes to start using right away, but can't seem to find that information again on the Wiki or in my notes. Can someone please help?