Re: [SAtalk] Philosophical SA questions

2003-09-22 Thread Robert Menschel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Darren, Monday, September 22, 2003, 4:43:33 PM, you wrote: DM> 256 Ham, 1040 Probably Spam (>5 points), 256 Almost Certainly Spam DM> (>15 points), and 269 false negatives, 0 false positives. Bayes was DM> trained with 16680 Spam, 4092 Ham, 12

RE: [SAtalk] Philosophical SA questions

2003-09-22 Thread Tom Meunier
Hi Darren, > 256 Ham, 1040 Probably Spam (>5 points), 256 Almost Certainly > Spam (>15 points), and 269 false negatives, 0 false > positives. Bayes was trained with 16680 Spam, 4092 Ham, > 125776 tokens. I have auto-learning enabled, and feed all > the false negatives back into sa-learn th

Re: [SAtalk] Philosophical SA questions

2003-09-22 Thread Matt Kettler
At 11:43 PM 9/22/03 +, Darren Madams wrote: Note in advance, I'm assuming sa 2.55 since this is a recent install. Philosophical question #1: Am I expecting too much to be disappointed with so many false negatives? I'm [obviously] nowhere near the numbers you guys are quoting. A lot of

Re: [SAtalk] Philosophical SA questions

2003-09-22 Thread Kai MacTane
At 9/22/03 04:43 PM , Darren Madams wrote: Philosophical question #3: One of the things I liked about SpamBouncer was feeding it your legitimate email addresses and mailing list addresses and then it would consider items sent TO those (missing or specifically there) in the overall scoring. I

[SAtalk] Philosophical SA questions

2003-09-22 Thread Darren Madams
OK, I need some help, and sorry in advance for the long email. I had tried SA about a year ago and wasn't overly impressed. I ended up going with SpamBouncer, which worked reasonably well but quickly got out of date and had no facilities for easy update (other than from the author, who it ap