[Spambayes] Why do I get more spam when using SpamBayes?!?

[papaDoc]

Hi David,


> I installed it at home, never got more than a few spam messages, but I 
> wanted to give it a try and keep any future spam messages from 
> starting.  As soon as I installed spambayes I started getting tons of 
> spam.  Why is that?  That's ridiculous?  Here I installed a tool to 
> help me stop spam, and it causes more!  Aaaargh!  Maybe next I'll 
> install some virus scanning software full of viruses.  That would be 
> great.
>
> Now I'm getting over 50 spam messages daily in my home inbox.  That's 
> awesome.
>
> I'm a developer myself, so maybe you there's a reason this happens 
> that you can't control.  If so, please explain, and I'll try to 
> understand.  But as of right now I hate this product.

You should ask yourself what did I do before installing spambayes ?
Did I  look at some spam (with the download image in my email viewer 
enabled) to test spambayes ?
Did I  subscribe to some mailing list recently ?

Did you enable the experimental options     x-slurp-urls ?

You should ask yourself this kind of question since spambayes don't send 
your email address to spammer.
The worst thing it can do is if there is link in the mail it can fetch 
the web page to try to find if the mail is spam or ham
but this option is experimental. (You can correct me if I'm wrong).

Remi


-- 
/"\
\ /
 X   ASCII Ribbon Campaign
/ \  Against HTML Email