[Mimedefang] Idea.. spell checking?

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Feb 11 08:16:32 EST 2004


On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> > That is not a good idea unless you have already built up a substantial
> > Bayes database, and even then I wouldn't recommend it.

> IIRC, SA doesn't start using Bayes until a couple hundred hams and spams
> have been read. At that point the number of legitimate new tokens should be
> relatively small.

Not in my experience.  I get new tokens all the time -- phone numbers,
names, addresses, and the like.  Weighing them as spammy would cause
a lot of problems.

Regards,

David.



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