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My NAME....My EMAIL address! Will Bayes hate me?
I just had a chilling thought. A lot of spam has my name or email address in
it (or addressed to it!).

If those emails go thru bayes as SPAM, won't my name & email address get a
bad rep?


Regards,

Julian Milano
IT Manager


Davenport Group
79-81 Coppin Street (PO Box 12) Richmond Victoria 3121
Ph : (613) 8416 6666

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-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Bown [mailto:lists@it-squared.net]
Sent: Monday, 15 March 2004 09:01 am
To: spamassassin-users@incubator.apache.org
Subject: newbie...


Can anyone help with some basic stuff...

I have SA set up, spamd is running and exim (with exiscan) runs all messages
through it. It's working fine and is filtering messages. However, it seems
very "slack". It is filtering REALLY spammy messages ok but 90% of stuff
get's through. How can I tweak the settings? Is spamd configurable?

Thanks in advance,

Adam.
Re: My NAME....My EMAIL address! Will Bayes hate me? [ In reply to ]
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 18:41:02 +1100 JulianM@davenport-industries.com.au wrote:

> I just had a chilling thought. A lot of spam has my name or email address in
> it (or addressed to it!).
>
> If those emails go thru bayes as SPAM, won't my name & email address get a
> bad rep?

Sure, unless a lot of ham also contains your name & email address; then
your name & email address are neither a good indicator of ham or spam
and will not be considered significant tokens for scoring. No problem.

-- Bob