Bayes is also only as good as what you are teaching it. You must ensure that you teach is hams that apply to your business and/or customers. The $85885 spammers got into a bayes very shortly after we started receiving them.
-----Original Message----- From: Scot L. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2004 3:36 PM To: Spamassasin Users List Subject: Re: Bayes less effective over time? On Sat, 2004-07-03 at 17:58, Jack L. Stone wrote: > The point about less effective is the question of "weight". As you know, > the spammer changes the form of attack constantly in an effort to get > around our defenses. Thus, if your "basket" is full of apples and now there > are more "oranges" being used than apples, the defeneses are weaker. But I thought that was the point of the bayes system. You keep teaching a sampling of the current spam and ham you get and it expires older entries as they exceed a certain time period. Which in itself tells me that the spammer could then go back to their "old" tricks and get around the defenses until the system re-learns those tricks. -- Scot L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...this is an awesome sight. The entire rebel resistance buried under six million hardbound copies of "The Naked Lunch." - The Firesign Theater
