Bayes failure on "hi, it's Somebody" spam

2006-11-16 Thread Bart Schaefer
It looks to me as if the recent spate of pump'n'dump spams are deliberately crafted to avoid being Bayes-learned by spamassassin. In spite of all having different subject lines and senders and other minor differences, once you've learned one of them sa-learn ignores all the rest -- and they all s

Re: Bayes failure on "hi, it's Somebody" spam

2006-11-16 Thread Jon Trulson
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Bart Schaefer wrote: It looks to me as if the recent spate of pump'n'dump spams are deliberately crafted to avoid being Bayes-learned by spamassassin. In spite of all having different subject lines and senders and other minor differences, once you've learned one of them sa-

Re: Bayes failure on "hi, it's Somebody" spam

2006-11-17 Thread Bart Schaefer
On 11/16/06, Jon Trulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, that has not been my experience at all... Bayes (99) is still catching every one for me. In this instance, SpamAssassin is running after POP download from gmail, so I'm only seeing the samples that have already made it t