On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:56:54AM +1200, Simon Byrnand wrote: > On the other hand, there is nothing to stop the message being autolearnt if > its score before the whitelisting value is added, so for example if a spam > would normally score 20 and be autolearnt, and you for some reason > whitelisted the spammer, their final score would be -80 and the message > would not be tagged as spam, but it WOULD be learnt as spam. (Because it is > spam)
:( That is not what I want though. Take for example this mailinglist, this very mail, it is full of words like "whitelist", "SpamAssassin", "autolearnt", "score", "man pages" etc. If you included a SPAM as example (quite possible on this list, and the reason why I whitelist it) then I still don't want it to be autolearnt: that would mean that the mentioned words get tagged as spammy, and they are not. Learning mails that *discuss* spam as being spam will make the Bayesian classifier less accurate. We really need a way to stop certain (white listed) mail to be auto-learned at all as spam or ham - ever. > There was a "bug" in older versions where I think the man pages were > installed to a *different* path than older verisons of SpamAssassin, so if > you started with 2.4x and then updated later to 2.5x (I think that was it) > then your man command could be looking at the old version. > > Have a search in the various man paths on your system and see if you can > find old versions of the man pages and delete them... Thanks! That was indeed the case! I now removed the old man pages. > >Your webpage http://www.spamassassin.org/doc/Mail_SpamAssassin_Conf.html > >says > > It's not "our" web page, both Kai and myself are end users, just like you :) Then where should I post when I want to convince the maintainers of SA to never autolearn a whitelisted mail? :) Mails on a list like this can easily score as spam, but - in the same message - might contain a lot of valuable words/tokens and that does screw up the Bayesian database when learning it as spam. Perhaps a 'never_autolearn_whitelist_to' should be added? -- Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
