Re: Question on focus of Bayes

2008-03-11 Thread Kris Deugau
Alex Woick wrote: If you feed third-party backscatter as spam, you let the Bayes filter know that the standard bounce texts like "...unable to deliver..." is a spam indicator. ... but if you feed in a few legitimate bounces as ham, the bounce text itself tends towards a neutral rating over ti

Re: Question on focus of Bayes

2008-03-11 Thread Alex Woick
The proper usage of the Bayes filter is very simple: feed spam as spam and ham as ham. All of your mail. Don't care for content that might be mis-learned in your eyes: it will not be mis-learned. Don't try be smarter than the filter. The only exception is bounce-messages: don't feed them at all

Re: Question on focus of Bayes

2008-03-10 Thread Kris Deugau
Alex Woick wrote: The proper usage of the Bayes filter is very simple: feed spam as spam and ham as ham. All of your mail. Don't care for content that might be mis-learned in your eyes: it will not be mis-learned. Don't try be smarter than the filter. The only exception is bounce-messages: don'

Re: Question on focus of Bayes

2008-03-10 Thread maillist
Theodore Heise schrieb am 09.03.2008 19:15: Occasionally I get unsolicited bulk e-mail on a topic that is of borderline interest to me. My tendency is to deleted it from my spam folder before training the Bayes functions on my spam. I've considered training Bayes on these messages as ham, b

Re: Question on focus of Bayes

2008-03-10 Thread Alex Woick
Theodore Heise schrieb am 09.03.2008 19:15: Occasionally I get unsolicited bulk e-mail on a topic that is of borderline interest to me. My tendency is to deleted it from my spam folder before training the Bayes functions on my spam. I've considered training Bayes on these messages as ham, bu

Re: Question on focus of Bayes

2008-03-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 09.03.08 14:15, Theodore Heise wrote: > Occasionally I get unsolicited bulk e-mail on a topic that is of > borderline interest to me. My tendency is to deleted it from my > spam folder before training the Bayes functions on my spam. I've > considered training Bayes on these messages as ham,

Question on focus of Bayes

2008-03-09 Thread Theodore Heise
Hi all, I don't recall seeing discussion of this question before, but apologize if I've missed it. Occasionally I get unsolicited bulk e-mail on a topic that is of borderline interest to me. My tendency is to deleted it from my spam folder before training the Bayes functions on my spam. I