At 11:06 2/09/2003 -0500, Tom Meunier wrote:
Because without a few hundred messages, it would be completely and utterly
useless? It would be like meeting an airline pilot who was 5'7" tall and
had a scar on his left cheek and wore his hat backwards. Bayes would
think that scars on left cheeks
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:53:50AM -0700, Ron Gilbert wrote:
> >>I read here that bayes is only turned on after
> >>it learned from at least 200 spams AND 200 hams.
> >>That number could be more. It only starts to be
> >>efficient after you got say 1000 of both.
>
> Can someone explain to me why
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> From: Ron Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> >>Because without a few hundred messages, it would be
> completely and utterly
> useless?
>
> Yes, i do understand that. I guess my complaint is that I
> would have rather
> it started working and been somewhat us
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Ron Gilbert wrote:
> I guess my complaint is that I would have rather it started working and
> been somewhat useless (like POPFile did), or provide much better
> feedback on it's status.
SpamAssassin's ethos has always been that a few false negatives are better
than even one
>>Because without a few hundred messages, it would be completely and utterly
useless?
Yes, i do understand that. I guess my complaint is that I would have rather
it started working and been somewhat useless (like POPFile did), or provide
much better feedback on it's status. From what I can tell
>>I read here that bayes is only turned on after
>>it learned from at least 200 spams AND 200 hams.
>>That number could be more. It only starts to be
>>efficient after you got say 1000 of both.
Can someone explain to me why SA won't start using bayes until it's seen
several hundred messages? I
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 10:54 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [SAtalk] bayes feedback
>
>
>
> >>I read here that bayes is only turned on after
> >>it learned from at least 200 spams AND 200 hams.
> >>That nu
I read here that bayes is only turned on after
it learned from at least 200 spams AND 200 hams.
That number could be more. It only starts to be
efficient after you got say 1000 of both.
Once it kicks in, you should see tests with
names like BAYES_*.
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Carlo Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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