Dan wrote:
I've developed a new approach to scoring that I want to 1) share with
everyone and 2) make into a working system thats as accurate as what
I've already built, but easier to use. First, the theory:
NEW ASSUMPTION
All messages are spam unless x,y,z score says they're ham.
NEW APPROACH
Block everything, then create rules to not catch what you do want.
ie, build tests that target the spam (keeping all the tests you've
already built), then score the thousands of ways ham triggers on those
tests.
It strikes me that the hardest part of this approach is filtering out
too much ham. At least for me, it's more important to make sure that
people reach me, than to filter out all spam. If we take the approach
that everything is to be filtered out, except x,y,z - then the risk of
filtering out too much seems pretty high.
