Dealing with wordlist mails

Peter Bishop pgb at adelard.com
Wed Jan 28 15:18:41 CET 2004


On 28 Jan 2004 at 14:36, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:

> That is correct, I am not sure how it could be adressed.
> 
> A word never seen before is not used in the calculation if
> you use default parameters (robx=0.415, robs=0.01, min_dev=0.1).
> 
I think the danger is with setups that use the -u autoupdate option
With small mindev, random word spam might be registered as ham. If 
these auto updates are not fully corrected, the database will 
eventually get polluted with apparently hammy words.

-- 
Peter Bishop 
pgb at adelard.com
pgb at csr.city.ac.uk






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