Bayes Poisoning? Spam with negative BAYES Scores - ahhhh

[Peter Peters]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 23:16:23 +1100, you wrote:

>>>I am starting to find that as the bayes DB is getting larger that more
>>>spam is starting to get through. I have only installed 6 weeks ago and
>>>in the last 2 weeks i have a steady increase in spam not being trapped -
>>>is there bayes maintenance i need to do? maybe its something completely
>>>unrelated, but it seemed logical to me.
>>
>>I save undetected spam and feed that into sa-learn. I am working on
>>filters that do the same with spam that is detected but has a negative
>>bayes score.
>
>Hi and thanks - i currently dont have the option for creating
>spam/notspam mail accounts

I don't have those account either. I just filter in my mailclient and
save the undetected spammessages in mbox format. Once a day I copy that
file to my mailservers and run sa-learn on all of them.

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