On Sun, Aug 03, 2003 at 02:14:08PM +0100, Martin Radford wrote:
> Using SpamAssassin to scan mails on the spamassassin-talk mailing list
> is a bad idea, since many of the messages there will look more spammy
> than "normal" mail. 

Definitely.  Is there a way I can correct that?
I use procmail.  I have no idea how it works.


> > Content analysis details:   (9.60 points, 5 required)
> >      IMPOTENCE          (2.9 points)
> >      PENIS_ENLARGE      (1.7 points)
> >      PENIS_ENLARGE2     (2.1 points)
> >      HTML_10_20         (1.2 points)
> >      BAYES_30           (-0.9 points)
>        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> ... and you'll seriously pollute your Bayes database.  You might well
> find your system thinks that the word "penis" is actually a
> ham-indicator, rather than being indicative of spam!

Tell me if I'm wrong.  My Bayes database won't be polluted as long as I 
don't feed messages from this list to SA, right?


> I use procmail, and tell it not to bother sending mail to this list to
> spamc. 

Can you tell me how to do that?

Thanks.
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