On Mon, 3 Feb 2003 the voices made Jeremy Turner write:

JT> On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 13:42, Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
JT> > I don't think I'll be using Spamassassin any longer.  I can't imagine ANY
JT> > spam filter program not catching that email.
JT>
JT> >From what I've read on this list and on spamassassin.org, SpamAssassin
JT> is not trained to catch specific email, but to be a good defense against
JT> all kinds of spam.  Therefore evaluating the worth of SpamAssassin
JT> against this one email isn't a good assumption.  I did, however, read
JT> that you tried several emails with it.  SpamAssassin seems to need
JT> tuning.  I am looking forward to Bayes in 2.50.  This will help train
JT> individual filtering sites with identifying spam, adult content, or
JT> whatever!

 Getting such bad results as he did is either just the dark side of statistics
(ie bad luck) or there was something wrong with this installation; or he used
like 4 e-mails only, which got a lower score simply because he sent them
himself (which, of course, changes the headers).


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