[Spambayes] Watch out for digests...
Tony Meyer
tameyer at ihug.co.nz
Wed Dec 10 18:40:33 EST 2003
> I had what looked like an obvious ham message score unsure
> this morning. Without thinking too much about it, I trained
> on it as ham. Big mistake. Stuff started getting wacky real
> fast. The message was a reply to a digest from a mailing
> list where the guy did this:
[...]
> Guess what? One of the messages in the digest was an obvious
> spam.
This is perhaps a drawback of the minimalist database size training
strategy. I'm guessing that if you had a larger database, the effect
wouldn't have been as pronounced? OTOH, maybe it's a good thing that it
was, so that you noticed and was able to correct it, rather than leave the
system with invalid data.
=Tony Meyer
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