Eaxctly.  Even if messages suspect of being spam are being put into
another folder, the USER must be RESPONSIBLE (for themselves!).
Sorry to shout.

Ben


On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:34:16 -0800
Cory Petkovsek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

| 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 as razor.sf.net).  I don't know about
| > SpamAssassin.
| I assume you understand the gist of a baeysian spam filter, so I won't
| explain it.  In the context of spam assasin, it auto learns messages
| by default.  There are certain very low bottom and very high upper
| threshholds of spamissity that triggers the baeysian learning.  
| 
| > My sense is that current Spam filters operate on the assumption that
| > nearly everyone agrees on what is Spam so anything reported by
| > anyone as spam is likely to actually be spam.  That probably works
| > fine up until an election year :-).  
| 
| Didn't Roger and Larry say they only tag messages and leave filtering
| to the end user?  So what's everyone's beef?
| 
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