[Spambayes] Spam Clues: [Bulk] Fantastic ...

[Eric A. Silver]

Hi, Skip.
Thanks for your help.  My virus definitions are updated daily, but it's
always possible for something to get through.
As far as my having approved this message as ham 300 times, I rather doubt
it.  Given the bizarre content, the likelihood that I marked it as ham even
once is rather remote.  Yes, I know the statistics say that I did, but
theirs is absolutely no way that this happened.  What is more likely,
however, is that it dropped into my inbox over 300 times, and Spambayes
failed to recognize it for what it was, so that in each case I manually
deleted it as spam, but the program never trained on it--which is what my
original message was about--that despite my marking these messages as spam,
the program never catches them.  Remember--given the content of the message,
it is highly unlikely that I marked it as ham even once, let alone 300
times.

Eric.
Eric A. Silver

-----Original Message-----
From: skip at pobox.com [mailto:skip at pobox.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 6:28 AM
To: rabbi at tbdcheshire.org
Cc: spambayes at python.org
Subject: Re: [Spambayes] Spam Clues: [Bulk] Fantastic ...


    Eric> This message was classified as "junk suspects."  It is identical
    Eric> to dozens of message that have come over the past several months,
    Eric> all of which I have moved from junk suspects to the junk folder.
    Eric> It appears that the training feature isn't working, despite the
    Eric> fact that it's checked.  Any ideas.

Looks like it was a message that contained a virus:

    Eric> 'virus:src="cid:'                   0.775585          304   1228

If that's the case, a) you need to update your virus definitions to
recognize it, and b) you've apparently approved similar messages as ham over
300 times.  With as many hams and spams as you have in your training
database:

    Eric> # ham trained on: 4041
    Eric> # spam trained on: 4721

I'm going to guess you probably have a few mistakes in there.  You might
want to try training from scratch.

Skip


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