... and possibly deleting rules where the GA seems to be saying they're irrelevant -- that would speed up processing too if there are fewer regexps to match against.
C On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 15:42, Gene Ruebsamen wrote: > I tend to agree.. > > I would trust the GA on this one, irrelavent rules will tend to get > low/irrelavent scores over time. Because the GA caught the spam using other > rules, the "HUNZA BREAD" rule probably has become irrelavent. > > Instead of manually fiddling with the scores of those rules, I would say > adding more relavent rules would be the better route to take. > > Gene > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > > Daniel Pittman > > Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:20 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [SAtalk] Re: SA 2.01 low scores > > > > > > On 14 Feb 2002, Craig Hughes wrote: > > > I'll investigate -- it's weird, because both GAs seem to assign low > > > scores to "HUNZA_DIET_BREAD" even though it obviously only appears in > > > the spam corpus, and not in non-spam. > > > > Sure, but how much of the spam corpus do they show up in? > > > > > In fact my GA which allows -ve scores give it a -ve score! Now having > > > said that, all the HUNZA_DIET_BREAD messages in the corpus end up > > > being identified as spam anyway because of the other rules they > > > trigger, but it's still very strange behavior by the GA. > > > > To me, it sounds very much like the HUNZA_DIET_BREAD rule isn't really > > very useful for identifying spam, overall, because spam that contains it > > is already marked by many other, more general, characteristics. > > > > So, the score for that fluctuates semi-randomly over time but, because > > it's never selected for by the GA, it drifts gently toward irrelevance. > > > > > > At least, that's my assumption based on what knowledge I have of GA > > evolution... > > > > Daniel > > > > -- > > We are always getting ready to live, but never living. > > -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, _Journals_, 1834 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > > _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
