Which messages to feed to Bayes?
Nathan Johanson
nathan at TCPNETWORKS.NET
Sat Feb 28 06:51:57 GMT 2004
>
> At 06:47 PM 2/26/2004, Michael St. Laurent wrote:
> >Excellent. Okay, what about spam messages that have lost
> their headers
> >becuase the user forwarded it to me (Outlook strips the
> headers when you do
> >that). Will it still benefit from looking at just the body
> of the message?
>
> No.. SA requires a complete email to be trained, and it
> learns from both
> the headers and the body at the same time.
>
> If you can get them to forward you the message as an attachment with
> headers, or use some kind of redirect feature that keeps the
> headers intact
> you should be OK.. But plain forwards don't work.
>
Isn't there a script or perl module floating around that will unpack
this attached message? If so, can someone please post the location?
Nathan
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