On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 14:15:53 -0700 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> It's foolish to throw away working rulesets and put all your eggs in > the Bayes basket. Bayes is not a panacea. I kind of feel there is a > NIH mentality among the spamassassin maintainers when it comes to > rulesets - it's like "we invented Bayes so it's the best, other > people invented rules so they aren't as good" it seems like there is > an overemphasis on throwing out rules. Unless you mistook Harold for a developer, that doesn't make much sense. Most of the effort on SpamAssassin doesn't involve Bayes, it's relatively mature. What you are suggesting would imply that SA is no longer under active development. I don't see what "other people invented rules" means, SA has always been rule-based. There's no one fending-off would-be rule developers with a stick.
