Thanks Chris! Good to know someone else has a similar experience and thinks this way too! I am experimenting with Bayes and so far, it does seem to help. I have been able to get rid of some custom rules that were creating FPs.
BTW, does Columbia University have any incentive to reduce spam more than they already do by adding the complexity of Bayes for a population that size? --Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: Covington, Chris > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:10 PM > To: Larry Gilson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] scoring system and values... > > > Definitely FPs. I think SA has a very difficult time with > solicited commercial email, even with Bayes feeding. I had > to up my site-wide installation to 10.0 to get only the worst > of the worst and to stop people's solicited Princeline / > Day's Inn, etc. hotel confirmations and travel/real estate > deals lists from getting tagged. > > And it doesn't help that Razor, DCC and Pyzor have a lot of > users that report legitimate solicited commercial email as > spam (the people that forget to uncheck "send me great > offers" when they order a product from a vendor, and then > report those vendors' "great offers" as spam). > > Maybe it's better to not use Bayes at all on a site-wide > basis. I've noticed Columbia University doesn't use Bayes... > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Larry Gilson > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 2:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [SAtalk] scoring system and values... > > I don't know if this really fits in this subject or not. > However, I keep thinking while reading this thread if anyone > considers real opt-in advertisements/messages that get tagged > by SA (like from OshKosh, Travelocity, Lands' End, etc.) to > be a FP or not. Do site-wide Bayes installs have a hard time > differentiating without feeding? > > Thanks, > Larry > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
