guidopythonorg guido van rossum id prefer strip html tags everything last time tried still bad effects error rates corpora corpora biased respect though newsgroups strong social taboo posting html many peoples personal inboxes quite abundant getting good ham corpus may prove bigger hurdle though saved mail doesnt reflect receive since save throw away selectively much past multipartmixed textplain brief text plus urls texthtml long html copied website ah explains html tags didnt get stripped id offer add optional argument tokenize theyd get stripped gets glossed third time would feel much like loss ill bite sounds like good idea strip html case id like see improves fp rate corpus guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido mon 09 sep 2002 101000 0400 spambayes test sets