[spambayes-dev] Fwd: Re: [Spambayes] RE: Spambayes Digest, Vol 64, Issue 68

[Tim Stone]

Gosh, I still get goofed up between sending to spambayes and 
spambayes-dev... I'm livin in the past...

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From: Tim Stone <tim at fourstonesExpressions.com>
To: akiva at atwood.co.il, spambayes at python.org
Subject: Re: [Spambayes] RE: Spambayes Digest, Vol 64, Issue 68
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:29:26 -0600

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 19:20:55 +0200, Akiva Atwood <akiva at atwood.co.il> 
> wrote:
>
>>> Is anyone else having problems with these types of spams recently? Has
>>> some prolific spammer changed tactics? Most of the one's I've seen seem
>>> to originate from Australia or Asia.
>>
>> I've been getting a lot of them. I thought there was a problem with MY
>> filter, and reinstalled it.
>
> This might be well dealt with by changing the unknown word probability 
> to indicate a stronger spamminess.  By default, it's .5, iirc.  Perhaps 
> we should do some experiments with pushing it to .6 or .7.  My corpus 
> has virtually none of these spams, so I can't say what would happen, and 
> I imagine that our test corpus has relatively few of them as well.  
> Comments anyone?
>



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