On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 09:03 PM, Scott at HobbyLink Japan wrote:
> Perhaps 1 in 20 to 30 HTML mails I get are not > spam, so I'd like the option in either PM itself (can this be done > with a > filter? I don't know how since body filtering is not provided), or in > SpamSieve, to adopt a "guilty until proven innocent" policy regarding > HTML mail, esp. those with links to images. In PowerMail you might be able to filter based on the content-type containing "html". As for SpamSieve, I'm looking at providing some special options for HTML messages. What exactly do you mean by "proven innocent"? Do you mean that there should be a different cutoff for HTML messages so that the slightest bit of spamminess can tip the scale? > And why does Nigeria mail still get through, even though I have trained > every darn one of them as spam? One would think by now that the word > 'Nigeria' would alone almost be an automatic trigger, but I don't know > exactly how these Bayesian algorithms work. If you get a chance, please send your SpamSieve Log file and some example messages to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I'd like to know what's going on, too. The main trick with Bayesian algorithms is feeding them the right information. I'm working on making SpamSieve better at extracting quality information from messages. -- Michael Tsai <http://www.c-command.com>
