[Manuel] > I prefer to always train everything to keep my filter up2date.
[Tony] > Research has shown, in every case, that this will give you inferior > results to training on errors & unsures only. Whether you train on everything, or only on mistakes and unsures, doesn't make a lot of difference to Manuel's argument. Either way, he needs to scan down the list and mentally filter out the spamcop replies - with mistakes and unsures he wouldn't need to click the mouse for many of them, but the fact that they're there makes life harder. I don't think Manuel's request actually counts as whitelisting at all, and I think it's quite reasonable. What he wants (Manuel, correct me if I'm wrong) is to filter out certain senders from the training list. All messages from spamcop would be automatically set to Discard and omitted from the training list. His email client's whitelisting rules would ensure that they ended up in the right place. Any messages that claimed to be from spamcop but weren't would be problem - they would get through the filters, and they would be untrainable, but as I understand it Manuel doesn't have a problem with that (as the FAQ points out, the SpamBayes developers see much more forged senders than ordinary users do). When you look at it like this, I think it's quite a reasonable feature request. I'd appreciate this feature myself (although not enough to spend the time to implement it, I'm afraid). I get a lot of bounce messages from the victims of spammers who are using my address as a forged From address. I wouldn't be comfortable training on them, because they are pretty much indistinguishable from real bounce messages - I have to check myself that the bounced address isn't one that I've sent mail to. I could use this feature to declutter my training lists. > OK, my fault, i think i overrated the abilities of the developers. ...but Tony is dead right - this sort of thing doesn't help. -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
