RE: Idea for better scoring

2004-11-16 Thread Gray, Richard
Firstly: Hi, First posting to the list. Secondly: > It seems to work well but isn't based on much more than a whim and a little observation. I get very few ham hits on _my_ mail with it, but > I mainly get pretty clean looking ham. This seems like a sensible approach in general. However, it s

Re: Idea for better scoring

2004-11-16 Thread Daryl C. W. O'Shea
Tom McClure wrote: Without ditching the current scoring altogether in favor of a multiplicative model (a la bayes), what if there were a post-analysis scoring step that just took into account the total number of positive rules (or rule families, if there is such a division)? Instead of looking

Idea for better scoring

2004-11-15 Thread Tom McClure
I run a small ISP and have installed SpamAssassin to stop spam. It catches a lot of spam. It's especially good at filtering out the worst, most offensive mail, but a good deal of spam still gets through the filter, even after a user's bayes db gets big enough to start adding the bayes tests.