-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Chris,
Friday, August 8, 2003, 8:01:48 AM, you wrote: RM>>>> 5) personal rules CS>>> Which leaves me with basically 1 and 5. :) CS>>> Don't get me wrong, I was excited about Bayes! Still am. But CS>>> because of my setup, I had to put it aside. ... CS>>> I figured others might be in same boat. Admins not wanting to CS>>> explain to users how to feed bayes. ISPs not wanting to use DNSBLs. CS>>> ect.... RM>> I really don't see a need to explain to users how to feed bayes. My RM>> server provided an SA on/off switch back in May, and I turned it on RM>> for one of my domains. I liked the results. Before I knew it, Bayes RM>> had trained and was trapping spam for me. auto-learn is quite RM>> sufficient on its own as far as I'm concerned -- feeding bayes RM>> specific emails is a nice-to-have feature which can give an RM>> incremental benefit, but it's not necessary. CS> So how would an end user fix an FP? What if autolearn hit an FP, CS> which increased into more FPs. Could snowball without fixing. I'm CS> talking without a clue, as I still haven't got to bayes yet, so I CS> might just be talking silly :P Good questions, but I haven't had to face that question in 3-4 months -- no FP has been autolearned. All FPs have been lower than the autolearn threshold (and that's even before I raised the autolearn threshold on my systems this week). The more common question would be how to train FNs (spam that score 1 or 2 below required hits). Feeding those is a not necessary but definitely beneficial tweak. Bob Menschel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBPzRPrZebK8E4qh1HEQJ0QgCg8p7WgKO+xP6oXkcoT8ik2MpBy2wAnA0A f03m1EMFcdBOmrskkOYvshnZ =PP5m -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- 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
