> -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Kohn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Why Bayes is so essential > > > Here is a spam that should convince people to turn on Bayes. This > Nigerian spam was almost certainly continually resent against > SpamAssassin 2.60. Each time, the words were altered slightly until > none of the rules fired. However, SpamAssassin with untrained Bayes > turned on can still catch the spam because of the number of words it > shares with other Nigerian spam. > > As SpamAssassin caught other less well-crafted Nigerian spam, it was > auto-learning all the words from them, including words that > are in this > spam. >
My patched 2.43 with custom rules,(My nigerian rules haven't been updated in months!), tagged the body alone as 5.0 :) I'm sure the header would have increased the score. No Bayes needed here. Just for reference purposes. OK, a little gloating as well :) --Chris Santerre ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
