[Spambayes] Spammer countermeasures against bayesian filters

[Tim Peters]

[Steve]
> I believe spambayes ignores the headers with the exception of the
> subject and from right?

It depends on which options you specify.  See the source code for details
<wink>.

> Has any work been done on separating the headers entirely and having
> a database for words in the header and the existing dictionary of
> words for the body? Maybe subject and from could continue to be
> evaluated along with the body database.

Previous tests were run ignoring the body entirely, and ignoring the headers
entirely.  Both variants did pretty well, but not as well as looking at
both.

I'm afraid I don't understand what else you may be suggesting, but it
doesn't matter <wink>:  as it said in the msg you're replying to,

    Write code to try it, and run comparative tests.  The results
    will tell us whether it's an improvement.