[eug-lug]Politically Motivated Spam Filtering (PMSF) at EFN?

2003-11-11 Thread Marc Baber
Hi Ken and other EUG-LUG and CPSR members, I first posted this to EUG-LUG (Eugene Linux Users Group) because I think the technical issues here may be beyond EFN's knowledge base when we start talking about Bayesian probability of spam. With this second posting, I'm also reaching out to the

Re: [eug-lug]Politically Motivated Spam Filtering (PMSF) at EFN?

2003-11-11 Thread Edward Craig
I get the impression that when I forward a message (headers expanded) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it sets my Baysian filter up, and anything it sees that looks like this message gets a spam rating based on its similarity to the forwarded message. Do repeated messages which fail the test add to

Re: [eug-lug]Politically Motivated Spam Filtering (PMSF) at EFN?

2003-11-11 Thread Larry Price
Unfortunately not everyone is as diligent as ed, someone has to at least glance at every message going through the spam queue to make sure it's not someone asking for support or berating us for the fact that SA missed one and was overenthusiastic about another. We do keep a big directory of

Re: [eug-lug]Politically Motivated Spam Filtering (PMSF) at EFN?

2003-11-11 Thread Cory Petkovsek
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:12:13PM -0800, Marc Baber wrote: Could anyone on this list explain what Bayesian spam probability means in the context of SpamAssassin? Some spam filters use locally defined filtering rules and some are augmented with remote databases of known spam messages (such

Re: [eug-lug]Politically Motivated Spam Filtering (PMSF) at EFN?

2003-11-11 Thread Christopher Maujean
Cory Petkovsek wrote: snip Didn't Roger and Larry say they only tag messages and leave filtering to the end user? So what's everyone's beef? Cory my beef is simple ease of reading. sure, I can still read the message after its been tagged spam, but its a pain, and I still have to wade

Re: [eug-lug]Politically Motivated Spam Filtering (PMSF) at EFN?

2003-11-11 Thread Patrick R. Wade
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 09:59:41AM -0800, Edward Craig wrote: I get the impression that when I forward a message (headers expanded) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it sets my Baysian filter up, and anything it sees that looks like this message gets a spam rating based on its similarity to the