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Posted to users@spamassassin.apache.org by Bowie Bailey <Bo...@BUC.com> on 2005/04/27 15:52:12 UTC

RE: Site-wide training with same message, different recipients an d different classification

From: ks.service.int2@ndr.de [mailto:ks.service.int2@ndr.de]
> 
> So, the current question is: What happens, if  two users receive the same
> mail, but both are classifying the mail different (one as ham and the
other
> one as spam) and feed it back into SA to learn it ?
> 
> Remember that learning is only done as the user under which's privilegies
SA
> runs, so it's not user specific.
> 
> In what direction will the score for the next mail from that sender be be
> pushed ? up or down ?  Spam or Ham ?

As long as the messages have slightly different received headers, they will
be
learned as separate messages -- one as ham and one as spam.  Since the same
tokens will be learned once as ham and once as spam, the net effect on bayes
should be nil.

Bowie