On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 04:43:53PM -0400, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003, Duncan Findlay wrote:
> > The only negative rules will be: bayesian rules, bondedsender and
> > habeas. Figuring how to autolearn ham (non-spam) is the only obstacle
> > we still need to figure out.
> 
> Sure sounds like throwing the baby out with the bathwater... but I
> presume you all are running statistics on email distributions...

Eventually, spammers will forge any test they can. (This of course
presumes that spamassassin is a big problem for spammers.) It's
extreme, but necessary.

All the spamassassin scores are generated with a genetic algorithm
using results from about 150k spam and 150k non-spam. The scores will
naturally be adjusted to compensate for the lack of negative scoring
rules.

Anyways, this is quite OT for debian-devel (although so is the vast
majority of this thread....).

-- 
Duncan Findlay

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