Re: Will bayes-db be 'skewed' by feeding it spam only (one central database)

2006-07-19 Thread Dirk Bonengel
Just read up at http://www.maiamailguard.com/, but: yes, each and every mail is stored in a database. Ham/Non-virus-mails get delivered at once though, only a copy is getting stored in the db Dirk Chr. v. Stuckrad schrieb: On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Dirk Bonengel wrote: ... If I was in your posi

Re: Will bayes-db be 'skewed' by feeding it spam only (one central database)

2006-07-19 Thread Chr. v. Stuckrad
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Dirk Bonengel wrote: ... > If I was in your position, I'd try to switch over to a system like Maia > Mailguard that keeps a copy of each mail in a database and users can > confirm and/or correct the underlying SpamAssassin engine's decisions. > This system uses a singel bay

Re: Will bayes-db be 'skewed' by feeding it spam only (one central database)

2006-07-18 Thread Dirk Bonengel
Stucki, did you investigate auto-learning? This might let your system learn ham as well as spam. Works fine here (same situation - gateway server to a Lotus Notes system, no feedback loop possible) As far as I recall, SA starts using its Bayes data only after having learned at least 200 ham

Re: Will bayes-db be 'skewed' by feeding it spam only (one central database)

2006-07-18 Thread Chr. v. Stuckrad
On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Logan Shaw wrote: ... > someone carrying a knife, they have been a violent criminal, > so knife-carrying correlates perfectly with being a criminal. > > Now imagine that you see a chef. He is carrying a knife, but (Good point: [OT: I even know people who react that way on TV

Re: Will bayes-db be 'skewed' by feeding it spam only (one central database)

2006-07-17 Thread Logan Shaw
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Chr. v. Stuckrad wrote: I'm a postmaster working with spamassassin (now debian sarge) for the last years, we habe one filter-host for all mails, so at the moment we have only one global bayes-database.. We are a department for math and computer science and so we get zillions

Will bayes-db be 'skewed' by feeding it spam only (one central database)

2006-07-17 Thread Chr. v. Stuckrad
Hi! I'm a postmaster working with spamassassin (now debian sarge) for the last years, we habe one filter-host for all mails, so at the moment we have only one global bayes-database.. We are a department for math and computer science and so we get zillions of spam for all addresses 'known on the n