Abigail - No. Sorry. You are incorrect. It's understandable that you are, but let me explain
Base64 is used quite legitimately by Outlook, Notes, and GW, in international settings. Clearly you don't do much business with Eastern Europe or Asia - their mail is riddled with it (not just the spam you get from there). In fact a big problem the SA-devs have is because so many of us and them are Westerners, we tend to use BASE64_ENC and SUBJ_FULL_OF_8BITS as sledgehammers. We don't have enough of a comparative corpus of spam and non spam here. Because most WE get is spam on average from these countries, the scores get overbiased. This leads to users in those countries getting substantial false positives. Ultimately the only solutions are to a) impress the corpus samples that initial scores build on so it's less western-biased (and understands what REALLY makes spam in these cases. b) let westerners who don't have many clients/business in Europe (particularly eastern) and Asia to jam up those scores manually (which they can do now) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
