On the other hand, if I auto-learn Bayes, then the Bayes database gets very big, and any mistakes that SpamAssassin does, and that I manually correct by sa-learning them to Bayes, don't get much weight. Correct? So fine-tuning Bayes gets harder if I use auto-learn?
Also if I auto-learn this mailing list (because everything goes through SA) then Bayes may get confused about these "penis enlargement" messages. OK, only if score is below -2, or if score is higher than 15, if I use the default settings. That must be the reason why these settings are so high? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Harri Pesonen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [SAtalk] The correct use of Bayes > At 05:02 PM 8/3/03 +0300, Harri Pesonen wrote: > >I think that the autolearn is bad, because it only learns from those spam > >messages that it knows to be spam for certain in any case, and the same > >for ham as well. OK, it does not necessarily mean that Bayes agrees what > >SpamAssassin thinks. Anyway, currently I have autolearn disabled and only > >feed Bayes those messages that SpamAssassin misses, spam or ham. Is this a > >correct way of thinking? > > To conclude that autolearn is bad is a considerable misunderstanding of > bayes. Bayes does NOT learn emails. It learns tokens. What bayes learns > from one spam is applicable to other spams. Bayes can apply these lessons > to find spams that would otherwise miss the ruleset, even if it's only fed > 'high scoring spam". > > In theory you should feed your bayes engine a fairly balanced diet of spam > and nonspam, without consideration of wether or not SA caught it. > > > > >Of course I had to sa-learn a minimum of 200 messages before Bayes started > >working. Could it be that the Bayes stops working correctly if autolearn > >is not enabled? > > It should continue to work even with autolearn off, but this does increase > the need for you to keep feeding it messages manually and to feed it a > balanced diet. > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
