Interesting article from Adot about how it’s possible to over-train Thunderbird’s spam filter, by repeating too much of the same spam (presumably so that new patterns are overwhelmed by the number of old ones).
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Interesting article from Adot about how it’s possible to over-train Thunderbird’s spam filter, by repeating too much of the same spam (presumably so that new patterns are overwhelmed by the…
I’ve been using Apple’s mail application, and I wonder if the over-training thing applies to it too. The web page you referenced doesn’t say anything about other apps being susceptible to the problem, and there are some that suggest it’s a bug, but I wonder if it isn’t an intrinsic feature of bayesian spam filtering.
I’ve used other Bayesian filters, and there definitely seem to be limits to them. That said, I find the Thunderbird filter to be less effective than others, in terms of what it lets through (certainly less effective than the previous anti-spam solution I was using with OE). I’ll have to consider this more carefully.