Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:12:34 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Confirmation Spam Blocking was: List 'linux-dvb' closed to public posts |
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > > A good Bayesian spam filter isn't nearly as susceptible to random words as > some people think. Words that are likely to be spam (along with words that > are frequently "ham") are given _exponentially_ more weight than other > words.
Especially if the "random words" in the spam end up being weighted by real frequency, you just _cannot_ use single-word bayes filters on it. Or if you do, you'll eventually have those words either being neutral, or (worst of all cases) you'll have real mail be marked as spam after having aggressively trained the filter for the spams.
It might not be that big of a deal especially if you have a fairly narrow scope of emails in your ham-list, but people who get mail from varied sources _will_ get screwed by this, one way or the other.
Of course, the spam filters will catch on to other things. I find that the DNS lookups take care of most of it, to the point where the other rules don't even much matter.
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