[Spambayes] Spamvolution

[Charles Cazabon]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
> 
> > This looks like it doesn't belong in the spam corpus -- it's a
> > legitimate (albeit mass-addressed) piece of mail.  If you and your
> > prize dog were going to be on national TV for the first time,
> > wouldn't you email everyone in your addressbook, telling them to
> > watch?  <wink>
> 
> Looks like you're right -- Rose, Ernie & Pat must be colleagues of
> Bruce at bfsmedia then.  But then how did it end up in Bruce's spam
> collection?  Forwarded by a colleague?  Or did he look at all messages
> coming in through that domain regardless of destination?

Bruce's spam collection came from a /lot/ of sources.  Some of it was spam
received at his various legitimate addresses (i.e. manually filtered out and
saved to his spam Maildir).  Other sources were various bait addresses in
multiple domains he set up, which automatically filed all received mail to his
spam collection.  In this case, I suspect the message was received
legitimately and simply mis-filed by hand -- human error.

On the plus side, it means Tim can get rid of his most stubborn false negative
:).

Charles
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