-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Steven,
Friday, June 13, 2003, 7:40:15 AM, you wrote: SM> If I turn on the Bayesian filter and set it to auto learn will this SM> cause problems like false negatives/positives? Basically I would like SM> it to start learning while I collect a couple 1000 SPAMs and HAMs to SM> teach it. Just wondering if I should leave it off for the time being SM> if it will cause trouble. - From my experience, just let auto-learn do its thing. My domain host installed SA, and I turned it on for my domain as soon as I saw the option, but didn't know how to go about improving the SA system for myself for 2 weeks to a month. In that time, Bayes auto-learned enough spam and ham to begin doing its job, and did a very good job indeed. IMO the only way having Bayes turned on would cause trouble is if your required threshold is set too low (so that false positives get learned), or if you play with the Bayes safety margin. The first change I made to my user_prefs file after reading the SA docs was to up my required threshold to 9. Since then I've had only 2-3 false positives, and none of them scored high enough to auto-learn. Bob Menschel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBPurGtJebK8E4qh1HEQKgXwCgw2RlohTijxN1Ey2bqUttvJLcTgcAnA2y vC/kAAeRvnkfVJpAcwZyLHku =1KIt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
