Bart Schaefer wrote: BS> On Sun, 26 May 2002, Jason Rimmer wrote: BS> BS> > Why is that? It would appear to me that a web_bug is an excellent BS> > indicator, and a nasty one at that, of spam.
BS> Apparently a number of messages with matching URIs have made their way BS> into the non-spam corpus. 801 occurrences in nonspam, 5854 occurrences in spam. The GA decided it works better with a slightly negative score though, probably because spammers who use web bugs are doing other stuff that's an even more obvious sign of spam, and (?:otherwise) legitimate mailers need those 0.8 bonus points to reduce false positives. 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
