Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-26 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Thu, March 26, 2009 17:26, Chris Barnes wrote: > I tried that. Didn't seem to help. I think I'll go ahead and just > rm the files. rm = Read Manuals ? :=) -- http://localhost/ 100% uptime and 100% mirrored :)

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-26 Thread Chris Barnes
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: No, I don't still have the messages that were incorrectly trained. So... it appears that wiping out the bayes database is the way to go. One final question for this then: is there a "sa-learn" option I should use for this, or is doing a simple "rm bayes*" in the .

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-26 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 25.03.09 11:01, Chris Barnes wrote: > Thank you for such a good, reasonable answer (it's good to see SOMEONE > is trying to answer questions with non-flippant responses). :-) > > No, I don't still have the messages that were incorrectly trained. > So... it appears that wiping out the bayes

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-25 Thread Chris Barnes
Jeff Mincy wrote: The question is: How does one fix the problem after it occurs? The way to fix the problem is to relearn any incorrectly learned messages. So any spam message that was incorrectly learned as ham, either automatically or manually, needs to be correctly relearned as spam usi

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-23 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Chris Barnes Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:14:37 -0500 Jeff Mincy wrote: > Yow. The negative scoring bayes rules are extremely reliable when well > trained. Ham messages are not trying to evade the filter. Defeating > bayes with poison is mostly a myth. The random g

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-23 Thread LuKreme
On 23-Mar-2009, at 10:14, Chris Barnes wrote: But the problem remains. A simple glance at this list shows that this happens often enough to be a fairly common problem. Because people don't train bayes properly. The question is: How does one fix the problem after it occurs? Train bayes wi

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-23 Thread Chris Barnes
Jeff Mincy wrote: Yow. The negative scoring bayes rules are extremely reliable when well trained. Ham messages are not trying to evade the filter. Defeating bayes with poison is mostly a myth. The random garbage might work the first time but not the second time as long as you are training th

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-23 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Hoover Chan wrote: > >The threshold was set to 6.6 (cf. required=6.6). The message this was > >attached to was very definitely junk. This kind of situation got me > >curious about the whole thing where any positive spam score is set as the > >threshold but seeing junk mail coming in with negat

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-21 Thread LuKreme
On 20-Mar-2009, at 14:18, Hoover Chan wrote: Can someone point me to what I can do to my Spam Assassin config for a situation like the following? X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.496 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[AWL=-1.103, BAYES_00=-2.599, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, URIBL_BLACK=1.

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-20 Thread Karsten Bräckelmann
> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.496 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 > tests=[AWL=-1.103, BAYES_00=-2.599, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, > URIBL_BLACK=1.955, URIBL_GREY=0.25] ^ Other than what's already been mentioned about Bayes and AWL... Either (a) there are

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-20 Thread RW
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:14:39 -0500 Jesse Stroik wrote: > It's a matter of taste and what you believe makes sense, but I don't > consider bayes to be all that accurate (since there are methods for > defeating bayes, poisoning bayes, etc). As such, I don't allow Bayes > to assign negative scores

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-20 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Jesse Stroik wrote: Hoover Chan wrote: The threshold was set to 6.6 (cf. required=6.6). The message this was attached to was very definitely junk. This kind of situation got me curious about the whole thing where any positive spam score is set as the threshold but seein

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-20 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Jesse Stroik Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:14:39 -0500 Hoover Chan wrote: > The threshold was set to 6.6 (cf. required=6.6). The message this was attached to was very definitely junk. This kind of situation got me curious about the whole thing where any positive spam score is s

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-20 Thread Jesse Stroik
Hoover Chan wrote: The threshold was set to 6.6 (cf. required=6.6). The message this was attached to was very definitely junk. This kind of situation got me curious about the whole thing where any positive spam score is set as the threshold but seeing junk mail coming in with negative scores.

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-20 Thread Jeff Mincy
From: Hoover Chan Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:55:08 -0700 (PDT) The threshold was set to 6.6 (cf. required=6.6). The message this was attached to was very definitely junk. This kind of situation got me curious about the whole thing where any positive spam score is set as the th

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-20 Thread Hoover Chan
The threshold was set to 6.6 (cf. required=6.6). The message this was attached to was very definitely junk. This kind of situation got me curious about the whole thing where any positive spam score is set as the threshold but seeing junk mail coming in with negative scores. Thanks. --

Re: negative scores for spam

2009-03-20 Thread Rick Macdougall
Hoover Chan wrote: Can someone point me to what I can do to my Spam Assassin config for a situation like the following? X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.496 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[AWL=-1.103, BAYES_00=-2.599, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, URIBL_BLACK=1.955, URIBL_GREY=0.25] That

negative scores for spam

2009-03-20 Thread Hoover Chan
Can someone point me to what I can do to my Spam Assassin config for a situation like the following? X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.496 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[AWL=-1.103, BAYES_00=-2.599, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, URIBL_BLACK=1.955, URIBL_GREY=0.25] That is, a positive score