[Spambayes] "Lindsey Carter": Re: [Zope-Annce] New zope.org development

[Guido van Rossum]

> On the other hand, the message you forwarded got scored 0.494 with
> both *H* and *S* > 0.98.  I'm quite puzzled, though, about how my
> training data is getting used.  I looked back at the spam that came
> through (now in my spam training set) and see that it got scored
> 0.000.  It now gets scored 1.000, but for reasons that don't really
> make sense to me.
> 
> Here's a snippet of the spamish word from the detailed scoring:
> 
> >available 0.844827586207
> >cc: 0.844827586207
> >corp. 0.844827586207
> >dickenson 0.844827586207
> >persistence 0.844827586207
> >pure 0.844827586207
> >released 0.844827586207
> >source 0.844827586207
> >unexpected 0.844827586207
> >windows 0.844827586207
> >zeo 0.844827586207
> >zodb 0.844827586207
> >zope 0.844827586207
> [zope-annce] 0.844827586207
> approve, 0.844827586207
> area! 0.844827586207
> behavior.) 0.844827586207
> beta 0.844827586207
> btrees 0.844827586207
> compiler, 0.844827586207
> conflict 0.844827586207
> cream? 0.844827586207
> email addr:zope.org, 0.844827586207
> emails, 0.844827586207
> fav. 0.844827586207
> from:"lindsey 0.844827586207
> from:carter" 0.844827586207
> from:email name:<smileylindsey72001 0.844827586207

At least the last 4 are probably unique to this particular spam, so
you must've trained on it.  That should explain why it's now
considered spam.  Unfortunately you've also made zope-announce posts
look more spammy! :-(

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)