-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 November 2003 10:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu 06 Nov 03, 10:17 AM, Ryan Castellucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > The other neat thing spam assassin can do, with bayesian filtering, is > > autolearning. If the score is above or below a configurable level, it > > automaticaly trains on it, as spam or ham respectivly. > > > > For example.... > > > > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-10.9 required=6.0 > > tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,HABEAS_SWE,IN_REP_TO,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST, > > PGP_SIGNATURE,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, > > REPLY_WITH_QUOTES > > autolearn=ham version=2.55 > > > > Unfortantly, there is no way for me to train the instance of spamassassin > > running at my ISP. > > as the bogofilter docs point out, this is an awful idea. autolearning > was recommended by bogofilter in its early stage, then the developers > rethought it and it's now discouraged. > > autolearning in non-linear. this means that infrequent and small > mistakes have the capacity to snowball into frequent and large mistakes. > > if you value your email, i would highly suggest turning autolearning > off. you can play with the threshold, but i value my ham too much to > play around with that!
Well, all my spam goes into a folder labled 'filtered' that I look through once a week or so. If I could manualy train spamassassin, I would, and leave autolearning off. - -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90 34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 72177BC7` Also available at http://www.cal.net/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/qqBsEd9E83IXe8cRAue0AJ9wbIlcyw67tf4PK607Jxm7ECXyrgCgh4um QpF1sU404S5BOeOtAyamfFk= =GOO5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech