RE: lowering your spam threshold howto

2007-02-23 Thread R Lists06
> > Hm. Your experience differs from mine. I tried using bayes, spent > hundreds of hours training bayes with lots of good mail from > archives, and lots of bad mail, and never got better than .5% (point- > five or .005) difference in spam detection. So we stopped using it. > > In comparison,

Re: lowering your spam threshold howto

2007-02-23 Thread Jo Rhett
On Feb 21, 2007, at 11:42 PM, R Lists06 wrote: Do you use bayes_auto_learn ? I am sure you know I don't mean AWL baloney. ;-) Hm. Your experience differs from mine. I tried using bayes, spent hundreds of hours training bayes with lots of good mail from archives, and lots of bad mail, an

RE: lowering your spam threshold howto

2007-02-21 Thread R Lists06
> > It's very simple. Tag messages above your soft limit and put them in a > different folder. Check the folder periodically for false positives. > Try to identify why they are FP. > > Look carefully at all of your normal mail, and confirm where it normally > scores. > > Lower your score limit