On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 16:37 -0600, LuKreme wrote: > On 12-Sep-2009, at 10:27, Clunk Werclick wrote: > > I disagree. It can do as much harm as good. My own view and > > observation > > from the past have rendered it pointless in my context. It adds > > latency, > > is easily poisoned and rarely makes much difference to the score. I do > > appreciate some people like it, but my own view is spam has moved on > > beyond the point of it being useful. > > Facts? we don't need no pesky facts. You are very misinformed. Myself, I've seen some very poor Bayesian databases where users have been allowed to categorize mail as spam-v-ham. One company who deal with Pharmaceuticals for famine relief in Uganda and other poor African countries found bayes to mess with their core mail to a point that made it worthless in their context.
It really comes down to the context and effort -v- the return. > > No thanks, I'll pass on that. In this specific case it still would not > > have increased the score to a point where the clock cycles made it > > worth > > it. > > The Bayes score ALONE would have pushed this over the spam threshold > on my machine. My point is the content of that mail, which has been circulating for weeks almost unchanged, really should bite on a core rule, not rely on plugins and bayes to catch it. <tangent>Interestingly, It is fair to say that Jari's follow up *did* show Bayes giving it 5 points. This was then destroyed by AWL dropping 4.1 off of it: 5.0 BAYES_99 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 99 to 100% -4.1 AWL: From: address is in the auto machine.</tangent> I've created a custom meta rule; I'm almost sorry I came here and asked. Some of the people here on this list are just so rude, and you sir, are an Arsehole! > -- ----------------------------------------------------------- C Werclick .Lot Technical incompetent Loyal Order Of The Teapot. This e-mail and its attachments is intended only to be used as an e-mail and an attachment. Any use of it for other purposes other than as an e-mail and an attachment will not be covered by any warranty that may or may not form part of this e-mail and attachment.
