Hello bats, on Tue, 6. Apr 2004 at 10:44:42 -0700 Michael R Kizer wrote:
> Does the Bayesit plugin merely base it's calculations on the subject and > body of the message? on the raw content/source of the mail, ie all words. > a spammer sends some junk mail to the list... if I mark these as JUNK > in TB, will it potentially have an effect on legit messages from that > group? Perhaps adding the [ABC] from the subject line to the list of > words associated with junk mail? It will notice that "[ABC]" has been used for spam, but significantly less than for legit mail. So, "[ABC]" would still belong to the group "Ham", not "Spam". > Just curious if I should just ignore spam that comes in via a mailing list, > or start flagging it as junk for the Bayesit plugin. No, you should mark every spam. This way a Bayesian filter will catch also the spams sent to a list (because of other words that belong to the "Spam" group). -- shinE! GnuPG/PGP key: http://thequod.de/danielhahler.asc lifted with The Bat! 2.05 Beta/14 on Windows XP Service Pack 1. ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.04.7 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
