The world is really unstable these days......

[Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy)]

Peter Hansen wrote:

> Lucas Raab wrote:
>> <snip>
> [...]
>> Y'know, I really do love these random word spam messages. They're
>> quite entertaining to read.
> 
> Although, when posting in reply to them it apparently helps those who
> read this through the mailing list, and who have Bayesian filtering of
> spam happening, if you would snip the entire content.
> 
> Otherwise it can confuse the spam blockers since they have your name
> generally associated with useful messages (I presume ;-) )  instead of
> with spam.  You're messin' with their statistics, man!  ;-)

Absolutely. Another example of where these things can mess with
Spambayes is people replying to XL and correcting his horrendous
troll-posts. It makes it really hard for Spambayes to determine that
*anything* coming from XL is spam.

Tim Delaney