Hello DZ-Jay,

Sunday, August 15, 2004, 10:20:52 AM, you wrote:

DJ> Some time around 08/15/2004 09:24:56, I think I heard MikeD (3) say:
DJ>>> I was too.  I just upgraded yesterday to 0.5.9 and I haven't
DJ>>> noticed a difference.  It does provide a white/black list, which I
DJ>>> don't care to use because it defeats the purpose of a Bayesian
DJ>>> filter (there's huge discussion -- more like religious wars --
DJ>>> about this on the POPFile list hehe).  Also, the kludges.txt file
DJ>>> doesn't seem to be implemented either (ignore list for headers).

>> That's too bad <sigh>

DJ> I just learned (by re-reading a babelfished translation of
DJ> the russian BayesIt page) that the "kludges" file (whitelist of
DJ> kludges) does seem to work, except I misunderstood it.  I thought
DJ> it worked like POPFile's "ignore" list, which ignores the
DJ> specified tokens when computing the probability of a message.  But
DJ> it is not a list of just "tokens", it is a list of header names
DJ> that will be ignored, for example, if you put in the list:

DJ> message-id
DJ> x-mailer
DJ> subject

DJ> If will ignore the values of headers that start with those
DJ> strings.  This is very useful, though.

DJ> I wonder, is the "ignore" list in the black/white list rules
DJ> window what I confused the kludges list for? i.e. is it akin to
DJ> the POPFile ignore list?  Anybody know?

Hmmm ... does it just ignore those 'lines' in the header?  If so, I
don't think that will be a problem for me.  My Kludges contains:

x-spam-checker-version
x-spam-level
x-spam-report
x-spam-status
x-uidl

And I don't think any of those are causing a problem.

-- 
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 MikeD                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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