Daniel Quinlan wrote: DQ> Craig R Hughes writes: DQ> DQ> > The right way is actually to have the AWL form a prediction based on a DQ> > more sophisticated predictive model, including a zero-frequency DQ> > estimate for senders who are not in the whitelist. The weight DQ> > provided by the AWL in cases where there is a-priori data about a DQ> > sender should depend on the number of messages sent so far, instead of DQ> > using the a-priori mean as 50% of the final score, the %age should DQ> > shift over time. There are well known ways of doing this optimally, DQ> > but my reference book on the subject is up in Sausalito, and I'm down DQ> > here in Menlo Park, 60-odd miles away. I suppose I could go look DQ> > things up online... If only I hadn't smoked all that pot as a DQ> > youngster, my memory might be good enough now to do it w/out reference DQ> > books :) Or if I were less mathematically lazy, I could probably DQ> > derive it from stuff I do remember. DQ> DQ> Does this also factor in the total number of senders seen in addition to DQ> the number of messages received? It seems like that's also a factor.
Yes, it would have to. DQ> Also, it seems like we're lacking a good way to whitelist addresses DQ> found in our own outgoing email in addition to incoming email. One DQ> could Cc: oneself and have procmail pipe to "spamassassin -W" option, DQ> but I only want messages in the To: or Cc: to be added. Well, the trouble is that SA isn't on the outbound path, and it's often a lot more difficult to insert ourselves into the outbound stream than to insert into the inbound stream. What if you're reading your office email from your home computer, and sending via your ISP's smtp server? Just too many variables, unless you have really good control over all your mail users. C _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
