Auto learning is something that should never of existed. All it does is
reinforce misclassification and slowly spirals the database into having
wrong answers be more wrong.

Since we don't seem to have consensus on changing the default does anybody
object to a pre-file that disables it? That would be more clearly
documented in people will look at the pre-file for V4.

Regards, KAM

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022, 04:43 Giovanni Bechis <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2/7/22 20:03, Henrik K wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 07, 2022 at 06:32:18PM +0100, Giovanni Bechis wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> as per Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf(3), bayes_auto_learn defaults to 1/true.
> >> Is anybody against changing its default value to 0/false on trunk (aka
> SpamAssassin 4.x) ?
> >
> > What is the reasoning for this proposal?
> >
> IMHO using autolearn without a correct learning process frequently poisons
> bayes data, I think bayes_auto_learn should be enabled only if you know
> what you are doing and not by default.
> I understand that changing a default value now could be a problem for
> users.
>  Giovanni
>

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