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Re: Hurting Bayes with "(spam)" in the subject line?

From: Micha³ Jêczalik <michal(at)jeczalik.com>
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 12:35:14 EDT

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Clay Davis wrote:

> Am I hurting my Bayes db by training it with HAM that has the text "(spam)" in the subject line of the message?

IMHO not. A word "spam" in not the most significiant spam fingerprint. Tell me the truth - how many spams have you seen with this word in their subjects? :) Probably it's not a spam fingerprint at all, just like you don't recognize a thief with a 'thief' sign on his t-shirt. :)

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Received on Thu Aug 30 12:34:56 2007

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