Re: Over Zealous Checks for Nigerian 419 Scams

2006-12-05 Thread Chris Purves
Rick Mallett wrote: What's the proper way to submit material for the ham corpus? I have never done it myself, by I found this in the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/UploadedCorpora -- Chris

Re: Over Zealous Checks for Nigerian 419 Scams

2006-12-05 Thread Justin Mason
Nigel Frankcom writes: On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:12:01 -0500 (EST), Rick Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the proper way to submit material for the ham corpus? I've got the entire newsletter that resulted in the Nigerian Scam FP I reported but I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to

Over Zealous Checks for Nigerian 419 Scams

2006-12-04 Thread Rick Mallett
We run a centralized spam filtering filtering facility using SpamAssassin and Mimedefang and we bounce (refuse receipt of) messages that score higher than 10 and we've been doing this for several years and never had any complaints of FP's from our users. However, one of our users was having

Re: Over Zealous Checks for Nigerian 419 Scams

2006-12-04 Thread Justin Mason
please feel free to pass on more FP samples for these rules -- so far we clearly don't have enough, given those scores! --j. Rick Mallett writes: We run a centralized spam filtering filtering facility using SpamAssassin and Mimedefang and we bounce (refuse receipt of) messages that score

Re: Over Zealous Checks for Nigerian 419 Scams

2006-12-04 Thread Rick Mallett
What's the proper way to submit material for the ham corpus? I've got the entire newsletter that resulted in the Nigerian Scam FP I reported but I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to include it in the posting. Its only about 3 pages long but its got both a plain text and an HTML component

Re: Over Zealous Checks for Nigerian 419 Scams

2006-12-04 Thread Nigel Frankcom
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:12:01 -0500 (EST), Rick Mallett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the proper way to submit material for the ham corpus? I've got the entire newsletter that resulted in the Nigerian Scam FP I reported but I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to include it in the posting. Its