[spambayes-dev] SPAM In This List

[Tim Peters]

[OTR Comm]
> I guess this list isn't protected with SpamBayes huh?  I received some
> SPAM through this list from someone pushing zoo-action.com.

People often need to discuss spam on this list, including examples, so no,
no filtering of any kind is done here.  This list isn't moderated either.

> The message came through my SpamBayes filter as 'unsure.'  The question
> I have is, if I reclassify it as spam, will it also make other emails
> addressed to spambayes-dev at python.org then get classified as spam also?

That's what I do, and it doesn't hurt.  SpamBayes gives all tokens equal
weight, and the "to" address is just one token.  What I have seen:  if the
first time I see a specific spam campaign is because someone sends a sample
here, that will probably rate Unsure, I'll train it as ham, and then because
of that ham training when I start getting instances of the campaign *as*
spam they'll also score as ham.  One or two trainings on those (as spam, of
course) generally takes care of that (although I have some non-default
options set, and that may be relevant).