[Spambayes] (no subject)

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> "Laurent Amar" wrote

Please check the FAQ at the Spambayes website - the link is at the top
of every page.

> 1)     When I mark a message as good ('ham') does SP automatically records
> who it is from and consider all mail from that person good regardless of the
> wording?  If not, would you think that this is a good idea?

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#why-don-t-you-add-whitelisting-blacklisting-to-spambayes


> 2)     When I receive  SPAM and mark it as such (confirm it is SPAM)  Does
> SP send an e-mail to the spammer saying that their e-mail did not go
> through?  Which other ways are there to give an incentive to Spammer to
> remove people from their list?  By looking at the address their mail comes
> from it looks like their address are sometimes automatically generated in
> hotmail and most likely, they never even read the response they may get.

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#why-can-t-i-bounce-spam-back-to-the-sender

> 3)     Also there are a lot of spam e-mails I receive that has a bunch of
> nonsense characters inserted in between words.  Example of subject lines
> *               Re: KNGWMGHO, he would fall
> *               Re: WWXURLAE, those two! Though
> *               Re: JSCWOL, uttering preposterous things
> *               Do  you have any idea how to identify these strings of text
> that make no sense and flag that?  (for example, any word with more than X
> vowels in a raw

These words are generally ignored by spambayes. If you do a 'Show Spam 
Clues', you'll see that they don't show up. A long time ago I seem to
recall that some testing was done to see if handling this specially would
make any difference - I think it showed that it made little or no 
difference. 

Thanks for the feedback,
Anthony


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Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>   
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