On 5/26/2005 10:08 AM, Jake Colman wrote: > Given the rather complete set of rules that ship with SA and which can > expanded with SARE, does bayes learning really help? Won't the rules catch > pretty much everything anyway?
The base SA install is insufficient, but if you tweak the scores and add some additional tests, you can get by without bayes just fine. I use a select set of RBLs, Razor, rulesets from rulesemporium, and my own LDAP-based weighting plugin, and my highest spam only gets an average of one spam per day, and even those are over the 5.0 threshold (so they are auto-filed into the Junk Email folder). Bayes is great for per-user stuff, but unless you are willing to manage the per-user databases (which I'm not), it is easier to just tweak the system scores and rules. Less management overhead, less CPU, etc. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/
