On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Matthew Cline wrote:

> On Wednesday 06 March 2002 01:40 am, Matt Sergeant wrote:
>
> > What I suggest is that the body stripping code adds the subject header in.
>
> If you did that, then the LINE_OF_YELLING rule will get invoked whenever the
> SUBJ_ALL_CAPS is invoked.  I assume that there should be two lots-of-caps
> rules, one for body and one for subject, since a subject that's all caps is
> more likely to indicate spam than a single body line of all caps; thus you'd
> want to have to different rules so you can mantain two different scores.
>
> Hmmm...  The GA assigned 2.659 to LINES_OF_YELLING, but only 1.981 to
> SUBJ_ALL_CAPS, so adding the subject as-is to the body would probably lead to
> false positives, even if you removed  the SUBJ_ALL_CAPS rule.  Two ways to
> compensate would be to give SUBJ_ALL_CAPS a negative score, or to lower-case
> the subject before adding it to the body, so that it's won't trigger
> LINES_OF_YELLING.

Well I guess the way to do it is to re-run the GA stuff and see what
happens. I'll leave that up to Craig as I still don't have an environment
setup for doing that yet.

-- 
Matt.
<:->get a SMart net</:->


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