RE: [SAtalk] Testing and weighting rules against corpus of spam/non-spam

2003-08-18 Thread Chris Santerre
> -Original Message- > From: Eric Hart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 1:32 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Testing and weighting rules against corpus of > spam/non-spam > > > Hi, > > I have written quite a fe

Re: [SAtalk] Testing and weighting rules against corpus of spam/non-spam

2003-08-18 Thread Matt Kettler
At 01:31 AM 8/18/03 -0400, Eric Hart wrote: 1. I've seen people commenting on specific rules, saying that a particular rule generates x false positives and y false negatives against their corpus of ham and spam. How are they running these tests? Well, getting the statistics is pretty easy.. use

[SAtalk] Testing and weighting rules against corpus of spam/non-spam

2003-08-17 Thread Eric Hart
Hi, I have written quite a few of my own rules, and would like to test them more systematically than I do now. 1. I've seen people commenting on specific rules, saying that a particular rule generates x false positives and y false negatives against their corpus of ham and spam. How are they r