article on blocking by subnets

[Graham Wilson]

On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:41:18PM -0800, Barry Gould wrote:
> 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.

i think it might be helpful for messages which, say the fisher algorithm
is uncertain about. the subnet tokens might push it over the top. this
could be proved/disproved by testing.

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