I am relatively new to the SAtalk list, so forgive this "stupid" question:
Just what is HAM? Terry Shows -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Blomquist Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 11:42 AM Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SAtalk] using sa-learn... Jeff Lasman wrote: > > I'm still not sure if I should run through "ham" as well as "spam" or > not. Is there a specific answer for this? > > Thanks. > > Jeff Hi Jeff, Bayes won't kick in until it has >200 ham/spam in the database. You should sa-learn --ham against as wide a range of your normal messages as possible so Bayes will have a good set of normal tokens for ham. You don't have to train in equal amounts my database is about 70/30 spam/ham and I'm running 99% with 0 false positives in the last month. hth, Scott -- Scott V. Blomquist,A-SA-CN-NRK TINLC(tm) #2598 ITI/Bear&Co Rochester, VT 802-767-3174(v) 802-767-3726(f) "Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from Magic." A. C. Clarke ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
