Arlo Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting a common response here which is to lean towards bayes > rather than score manipulation. > > However, bayes takes so long to build up. Especially if grandma only > gets 2 or 3 spams a day. Given that SA refuses to use bayesian > filtering til after it has collected 200 spam samples, in my example, > grandma would have to use SA for 3 full months before the bayesian > filter would begin doing anything.
I'm sure someone can feed you their porn (or mortgage or whatever) spam corpus to use for your grandma. Of the 35 spam messages I got today, 5 were porn type (selling enlargment stuff). I'm sure that if I visited a few select websites and gave them my email address, I could significantly up that number. -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager ph: 979-845-7801 Department of Physics fax: 979-845-2590 Texas A&M University ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN's Audience Survey. Help shape OSDN's sites and tell us what you think. Take this five minute survey and you could win a $250 Gift Certificate. http://www.wrgsurveys.com/2003/osdntech03.php?site=8 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk