Tony Meyer wrote: > I expect that if you look at the clues for such messages, you'll find > that any 'Xah Lee' clues are swamped by lots of 'c.l.p message' > clues. A big problem with filtering mailing lists at the user end > (rather than before the post is accepted) is that the mailing > software adds so many strongly-correlated clues. It's made worse > because he uses so many words that you'd expect to find in legitimate > c.l.p messages.
It's this last bit that's the problem. I've got no problems filtering other types of spam messages to the list, but XL adds so many non-spam terms that the from field gets declared a statistical anomaly :( Tim Delaney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
