[Spamassassin Wiki] Update of "BayesStopList" by JustinMason

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add note about history

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+ == History ==
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+ (this part by jm, who selected the original set)
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+ The original selection of words in the stop-list was based on words that scored around 0.4 to 0.6 in Bayes score after learning a "typical" spam/nonspam corpus, with a very large number of hits -- in other words, they were both (a) very common and (b) likely to always be ignored by the Bayes code anyway, since they were always going to fall within the $MIN_PROB_STRENGTH range.  They weren't chosen just as "common" words.
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+ However, it's arguable that the stop-list makes an assumption that everyone speaks English -- in some non-English-language countries, a nonspam corpus may contain no English terms while the spam corpus is mostly-English, in which case those stop-words would actually make good spam signs.
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