RE: [SAtalk] SA 2.01 low scores

2002-02-15 Thread CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson
> I think the Genetic Algorithm (GA) assigns all the scores now. > GA's are very > powerful optimization tools, and if the GA lowered those scores, it likely > raised (compensated) other scores that were more common spam signatures. > > The GA is only as good as the population of data it is run on

RE: [SAtalk] SA 2.01 low scores

2002-02-14 Thread Gene Ruebsamen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 11:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] SA 2.01 low scores > > > I have been seeing alot more Spam get thru (false negatives) in v2.01 than

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.01 low scores

2002-02-14 Thread Craig Hughes
I'll investigate -- it's weird, because both GAs seem to assign low scores to "HUNZA_DIET_BREAD" even though it obviously only appears in the spam corpus, and not in non-spam. In fact my GA which allows -ve scores give it a -ve score! Now having said that, all the HUNZA_DIET_BREAD messages in th

Re: [SAtalk] SA 2.01 low scores

2002-02-14 Thread Greg Ward
On 14 February 2002, CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson said: > I have been seeing alot more Spam get thru (false negatives) in v2.01 than > with v1.5. I have been comparing the scores of 1.5 with 2.01 to see why. > Here is an interesting discovery: there are several scores in the > 50_scores.cf file

[SAtalk] SA 2.01 low scores

2002-02-14 Thread CertaintyTech - Ed Henderson
I have been seeing alot more Spam get thru (false negatives) in v2.01 than with v1.5. I have been comparing the scores of 1.5 with 2.01 to see why. Here is an interesting discovery: there are several scores in the 50_scores.cf file that are 0.01 in value: 50_scores.cf:score A_HREF_TO_UNSUB