On 2017-11-16, John McMurray <john@???> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is slightly off topic but I can't seem to find any info by googling..
> I'm trying to understand what spam score fudging means and why its used,
> etc.
two related terms:
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/fudge-factor.html
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/F/fudge.html
basically fudging is messing with the result to change be behavior of
things that examine the result.
eg: all posts from example.net are malformed, so subtract 0.2 form the spam
score to compensate.
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