article on blocking by subnets

Barry Gould BarryGould at PennySaverUSA.net
Tue Dec 3 01:41:18 CET 2002


At 04:36 PM 12/2/2002, David Relson wrote:
>The scoring algorithms used by bogofilter look at _all_ the tokens parsed 
>from the message.  The algorithms give them all comparable 
>importance.  Let's assume that a particular subnet came to be recognized 
>as 100% spam.  When that subnet was seen, the token would be a single 
>max-spam factor in the overall calculation.  Every token contributes to 
>the score, but no individual token contributes a lot.
>
>Let me cast my vote in the "minimal effect" group.

I know it would still be just one token, but I think it might be helpful.

Thanks,
Barry





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