On Sun, 26 May 2002 the voices made Duncan Findlay write:
> On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 10:55:34PM +0200, Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
> > Should rules, clearly involving nasty things used by spammers, be removed when
> > the scores go negative?
>
> I think so. Rules designed to catch spam, scored negatively, even if they
> occur more frequently in non-spam than spam, are NOT good indicators of spam.
> They are merely bad/false indicators of spam, and the regexp's should be
> changes to make them better spam indicators.
>
> If we want to have negative scoring rules, we should try to put together
> regexp's that are actually non-spam indicators.
The reason for putting it as a question was that one might argue that you need
both positive and negative rules, and if a rule even after being improved has a
GA-score that isn't expected you'd still keep it. In fact, you'd want as many
far from general rules you could ever think of, and then let the magic of GA
sort it out.
BUT... taking that all the way will in the end clearly slow things down a lot.
Personally I don't see any real problems with the way it is today, as it is
today; but I seem to hear more and more about localization-related problems as
well as people tinkering with the rules. From my point of view that's telling
us that maybe some changes, or at least a discussion, is needed to avoid that
too many move away from the core and/or before SA grows some more (filesize,
number of rules and users).
To begin with, people tinkering and dealing with less common (to the average
user of SA) languages isn't good for GA-scores; esp. if you are using rules
with negative scores...
I have no idea where I'm heading with this, but I wrote it, so now you had to
read it. ;-)
/Tony
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