On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:14:39 -0500 Jesse Stroik <jstr...@ssec.wisc.edu> wrote:
> It's a matter of taste and what you believe makes sense, but I don't > consider bayes to be all that accurate (since there are methods for > defeating bayes, poisoning bayes, etc). As such, I don't allow Bayes > to assign negative scores or positive scores within a couple of > points of the threshold. In my experience, if you train Bayesian filters properly, anti-Bayesian techniques just create more neutral results rather than errors. Despite what the spammers do, many people are still getting good results from pure statistical filters like dspam and bogofilter. > I also disable AWL since a lot of spam, especially the stuff most > likely to be tested against spamassassin, will like use known good > email addresses from your domain as the "from" address. This is > fairly likely to hit on the AWL. It's supposed to be based on a combination of address and IP address, so that shouldn't happen
