classification error ???

[Adrian Otto]

David,

Was the attachment MIME encoded, or was the text simply included in the same
message with ">" quoting or something?

Adrian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Relson [mailto:relson at osagesoftware.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 9:56 AM
> To: bogofilter at aotto.com
> Subject: classification error ???
>
>
> About a year ago, my son received a bunch of spam titled "hello babe".  I
> eventually forwarded one to abuse at yahoo.com.  Whatever the story,
> in one of
> my tests I ran both the original message and the forwarded
> message (which
> includes a full copy of the original) through bogofilter.
>
> The original was classified as spam and the copy as nonspam.  I ran
> bogofilter in verbose mode to see the words used for calculating the
> spamicity.  The original had a reasonable list of words ( with both high
> and low probabilities in it), but the copy had a totally
> different word set
> and all its words had probability 0.010000.
>
> What the heck is going on?
>
> If anyone feels qualified to tackle this problem, I'll be glad to forward
> the messages and my wordlists ...  If not, I'll poke and prod at
> bogofilter
> to see if I can learn what it's really doing.
>
> David
>
>
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