On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:24:03 -0700 Kenneth Porter <sh...@sewingwitch.com> wrote:
> So I suggest changing the wording of that paragraph to replace > "filter" with "classifier": I can't do any harm, but I doubt it would make much difference because not many people would read it and I think most ordinary users regard it as a fairly pedantic distinct anyway. If you were to say that someone was sent to prison by a DNA test, it's not literally true, but you wouldn't expect to be corrected. > I suspect the term "filter" was used because SA is indeed a "filter" > in the unix sense of a program that runs in a pipeline that > transforms its input. If "SpamAssassin is not a filter", then "Ceci n'est pas une pipe".
