[Spambayes] RE Spam

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Tue, May 23, 2006 19:04, skip at pobox.com said:
>
>     Amedee> I have noticed that a lot of spam contains disclaimer-ish
> text.
>     Amedee> If I train spambayes with "disclaimed" ham, I fear this will
>     Amedee> "pollute" the sb database.  The result might be that any email
>     Amedee> with a disclaimer-ish text will get a relatively high ham
> score.
>     Amedee> At the moment, I don't see a solution for this possible
> problem.
>     Amedee> I *could* not train on disclaimed ham, but if most of my
>     Amedee> correspondents have such boilerplates, training spambayes
> won't
>     Amedee> be very efficient.
>
> That depends.  Most common English words (most of the words in disclaimers
> are probably pretty common) should probably score around 0.5 and thus not
> be
> used in ranking messages, e.g.:

Interesting.
However, English is not my mother language and most of my correspondence
is in Dutch.
As a consequence, most common English words are quite uncommon for me. The
result is that common English words will score a bit above 0.5. Perhaps
not much, but enough to be significant after a while.

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