On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 09:58:49AM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Take this with a grain of salt, I'm biased (being the bogofilter
> > co-maintainer):
> >
> > IMHO the SpamAssassin Bayes stuff should be disabled -- for various reasons:
> >
> > 1. is that it causes a major performance issue, even on lightly loaded
> > Pentium D and Xeon 2.8 equipped servers, which causes filtering to be
> > aborted through amavis's timeouts (at least for my older amavisd-new
> > version).
> >
> > 2. SA's self-registering stuff should be disabled - Bayes filters need
> > to know what the human that is to receive the messages considers
> > spam, not what a machine second-guesses.
...
> Thanks. I knew most of this, which is why I wasn't going to bother
> trying to train databases this time around. But what do you mean by
> "self-registering" ?
autolearn - The default is for SA to feed into Bayes anything that
scores high enough (as spam) or low enough (as ham). I agree that this
is a fundamentally and philosophically flawed idea. At the least it
should not be a default and should use much further thresholds than it
did when I last checked.
If you weren't aware of this, this may be how your Bayes DBs ended up
poisoned. With autolearn it can happen anytime a new style of spam
comes through which is not caught by SA's existing rules.
-- Clifton
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