Not necessarily in more nonspam than spam, but in a significant amount
of nonspam.  Raising the scores on these (and I tried with each) will
severely increase the rate of false positives.

C

On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 18:22, Matthew Cline wrote:
> On Sunday 03 March 2002 05:58 pm, Craig R Hughes wrote:
> > I just pushed out the new scores (and a bugfix or two) as 2.11
> >
> > The new scores are done by constraining the GA more, using Michael Moncur's
> > submitted scores as a starting point, and then hand-tweaking the output
> > where basically any -ve scores that came out but which only existed in the
> > corpus as spam (or in the nonspam corpus as highly dubious nonspam) were
> > reset to something small and +ve
> 
> Interesting negative scores:
> 
> score INCREASE_SALES                 -1.273
> score CASHCASHCASH                   -0.839
> score OPPORTUNITY                    -0.651
> score DEAR_SOMEBODY                  -0.492
> score SUBJ_REMOVE                    -0.471
> score ONCE_IN_LIFETIME               -0.405
> score DEAR_FRIEND                    -0.242
> score MAILTO_LINK                    -0.226
> score PROFITS                        -0.162
> score FOR_JUST_SOME_AMT              -0.148
> score TO_MALFORMED                   -0.050
> 
> So did these things appear in more non-spam than spam?  For most of these 
> rules, I've never seen them appear anywhere but in spam.
> 
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