Bayes and spam increase?

[Martin Hepworth]

Magda

bayes was convinced this was ham...hence the bayes_00 score (0% spam).

You need  to feed these into the bayes DB in order for it to learn these
as spam.

--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Magda Hewryk wrote:
> Yes, I've got a lot  untagged spam email on the weekend.  I found BAYES_00
> -2.60 attached to all of them.
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> At 10:43 AM 2/7/2005, Fractal IT Dept. wrote:
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>>Hi everyone!
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>>We've noticed an increase in the number of spam sneaking through with
>>scores "just under" our threshold. After looking through the headers for
>>these messages, I've noticed that bayes seems to have "no opinion" on the
>>majority of these (ie. no bayes entry). Am I missing something? I thought
>>bayes would score every message?
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> That's not entirely true, especially for the 2.6 series.. in 2.6x or 2.5x,
> In those any "no matches" or other 50/50 chance does not get a BAYES_ rule
> match.
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> Can you tell us what version of SpamAssassin you are using?
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