On Wed, 2 May 2007, Henrik Krohns wrote:
I guess this doesn't hurt, but Bayes should already handle it. Most mails on my server are BAYES_00, since there is practically no spam in our language.
Well, I don't entirely agree. In theory bayes can handle things ofcourse, but I have words in my mail that would never occur in spam, mails with a phonenumber from my country almost never occurs in spam... I want to give such mail a more "negative" weight, to finetune things, and I can see it works great: even mails that are written in caps etc, but which aren't spam, aren't tagged falsely.
Also the opposite is true, but it is more obvious: most of my spam has BAYES_99, so in theory all spam can be handled by BAYES_99. But ofcourse, people write specific rules too to push the spam over the limit so it gets flagged. If Bayes would be fully perfect and if it would handle everything, SARE rules wouldn't be needed ;-)
K.
