--- Justin Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I haven't looked yet, but > > (a) if they're not well-cleaned (ie if there is valid nonspam in > there), > it's going to seriously impact the archive's usefulness.
It's not well-cleaned. In a random survey of 5 spam files, one was clearly a valid eVITE invitation to read a greeting card. I don't consider that spam. > > (b) on the other issue: a lot of SpamAssassin's top tests use > header > info, even in the -L case, so with the headers removed, a 20% > accuracy > drop would be about right. > > --j. Agreed. I think it's worthless too. Just wanted to bring up the topic, so we could all be prepared for newbies asking the question. Now we have a thread to point to Here's an example of their substandard corpus. Note that while looking for an example, i ran into another false positive out of 5 (a "we're relocating our address to...") 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