Re: Bayes false postive correction tuning

2013-02-08 Thread Bob Proulx
I realized that I can pull the backups for the last couple of weeks and see what is different between them. Interesting results. On 01/15: -rw--- 1 1272 Jan 15 20:04 bayes_journal -rw--- 1 43421696 Jan 15 20:03 bayes_seen -rw--- 1 5042176 Jan 15 20:03 bayes_toks 0.000

Re: Bayes false postive correction tuning

2013-02-07 Thread Bob Proulx
David B Funk wrote: > Something's really wrong here, those "dump magic" numbers don't > match up with the size of your bayes files. For example, you have a > non-empty 'bayes_journal' file but the last journal sync atime is > zero (implying never synced). I wasn't clear other than showing that my

Re: Bayes false postive correction tuning

2013-02-07 Thread David B Funk
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013, Bob Proulx wrote: I am having Bayes false positive misclassifications and am trying to tune and improve this situation. I am using SpamAssassin to classify mailing list messages and so there is a lot of mail from a variety of sources feeding SA. And a lot of spam of course.