[Spambayes] Slice o' life

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Tim Peters wrote
> [Rob W.W. Hooft]
> > Correlations, correlations, correlations. It all boils down to
> > correlations. Not the fact that there are correlations, but that they
> > are very, very different from one clue to the next. All these mailman
> > clues are correlated. And by not downweighting them, we're blinding the
> > procedure to the other clues that do not come by the dozens...
> 
> It's not even that they're Mailman clues, though, it's more that python.org
> specifically already has strong anti-spam and anti-virus measures in place.
> That's how these "Mailman clues" earned their very low spamprobs to begin
> with -- it's not that Mailman is stopping spam, it's that virtually all the
> Mailman lists I'm on go through python.org. 

For an additional data point - if I turn on mine_received_headers, one
of the clues that shows up in a lot of very very low-prob fn's is 
received lines with mail.python.org. 

So stripping out just the mailman headers won't help. 

This also shows up with the footers of the messages that do make it
past Greg to python-list. The .sig at the end shows up as strong
ham clues.

Anthony
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