Hello, everyone!
I have just read Alexey Vinogradov's Web page on The Bat!'s BayesIt! anti-spam plug-in, at the following URL:
http://klirik.narod.ru/usefuls/bayesiteng.htm
(The Russian version is at the following URL.)
http://klirik.narod.ru/usefuls/bayesit.htm
ASIDE: For those of you who have not found the BayesIt! plug-in for The Bat! (now that it is installed with TB!), the path is as follows:
'\Program Files\The Bat!\BayesIt\bayesit.tbp'
You can find information about BayesIt! on RITLabs Web site at the following URL:
http://www.ritlabs.com/kb/idx/41/0/
Alexey warns, on his Web page, that is a "deprecated document which is actual for the plugin up to version 0.4gm. Since the add-on BayesIt was included into official distribution of the last versions of The Bat!, the information page about installing and setting up the plugin (ver. 0.5.x and newer) is now placed at RitLabs website (see at section 'Solution' on official RitLabs site...."
I installed the plug-in today, and I also found Alexey's Web site about his plug-in.
I receive e-mail in English and in Russian. Some messages are in English only, some are in Russian only (including some spam), and some are in Russian and English.
I have not yet run the configuration wizard for BayesIt!, but based upon the information about the wizard on Alexey's Web page, you must set up BayesIt! for a single language, such as Russian or English.
Actually, you skip a configuration step if all of your e-mail is in English. Otherwise, you have to enter a locale for non-English e-mail, such as 'Russian_Russia'. The options are, "Yes, all my mail is in English," or "No, I receive mail in my native language (not English)." Alexey warns, "Also note that this technology has no sense for English-speaking mail."
Well, English is my native language, but all of my e- mail is not in English. :-) Has anyone faced a similar situation and how did you resolve the problem?
I can see the possibility of selecting the Russian locale and then entering all of the Latin/English characters in the alphabet of my locale (US). I would then, however, have a problem with the transliteration table. It is easy enough to do the transliteration from Russian/Cyrillic letters to English letters, but I wonder if all of the Latin/English characters that I would have added to the Russian locale would end up creating a huge mess with transliteration.
I could send e-mail to Alexey; I assume that he is still developing BayesIt! for RITLabs. The alternative might be to use an external program, such as SpamPal or K9, but won't an external program that uses Bayesian filtering also have a problem of all of my e- mail not being in English?
Thank you very much, in advance, for your suggestions!
Cordially,
David -- http://ddickerson.igc.org/
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