> I've got a sneaking suspicion that all of us who are using scores > 5
> as the "it's spam, bin it" threshold with the stock rule values should
> really be re-running the GA locally, tuned for whatever threshold value
> we want -- i.e., you should run it with the GA configured for a threshold
> of 10 to get saner results.

Well, the exact score is hard to figure out, and may vary between releases,
but we can generally count on a threshold of 10 having (a) fewer false
positives and (b) more false negatives than a threshold of 5... right?

(I use a probably-spam threshold of 7 and a definitely-spam threshold of 20)

--
Michael Moncur  mgm at starlingtech.com  http://www.starlingtech.com/
"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." --William Blake



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