On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:10:08 +0000 Dominic Benson <domi...@lenny.cus.org> wrote:
> Recently, in order to balance the ham/spam ratio given to sa-learn, I > have started to pass mail submitted by authenticated users to > sa-learn --ham. > I haven't seen any mention of this strategy on-list or on the web, so > I'm interested in whether (a) anyone else does this, and (b) is there > a good reason not to do it that I haven't thought of? It's possibly a good idea, but you want to be really careful of one thing: Make sure your users are savvy enough not to have their accounts phished. It'll take just one compromised account that blasts out a spam run to destroy the usefulness of your Bayes data. Regards, David.