[Spambayes] Is simple better?

[Kenny Pitt]

Andrew J. Coutermarsh wrote:
>> can you be more specific?
> 
> Well, what I meant by that is this, for example: If somebody includes
> you in a CC:, it would get snatched up.  Conversely, spammers often
> put your name in the To: line, thus making it go through to your
> inbox.  So while simple CAN work, it's often better to use it in
> conjunction with a filter. 

You may also miss messages sent to mailing lists that you subscribe to,
because mailing lists often only include the list address in the To
field.  Notice that the original message has simply "To:
spambayes at python.org".  If I were using a filter that prevented any
message that did not have my e-mail address in the To field then I would
never have seen it.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Bailo [mailto:jabailo at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 1:47 PM
> To: Andrew J. Coutermarsh
> Cc: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: RE: [Spambayes] Is simple better?
> 
> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 10:38, Andrew J. Coutermarsh wrote:
>> Yes, but if you do that, you're dramatically increasing the chance of
>> getting false positives and false negatives.  You gotta be careful
>> about 
> 
> can you be more specific?
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org
>> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of John Bailo Sent:
>> Tuesday, November 04, 2003 1:34 PM 
>> To: spambayes at python.org
>> Subject: [Spambayes] Is simple better?
>> 
>> 
>> I spent a few hours this weekend to get SpamBayes to work, with
>> Evolution on RedHat 9.   I did not succeed.
>> 
>> But then I picked up an idea from a newsgroup about just creating
>> a filter that only allows email with my name in the recipient list
>> through to my inbox. 
>> 
>> Now I am filtering 99 percent of my spam with a simple inbox filter.
>> 
>> less is more.

-- 
Kenny Pitt