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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