"Frank Pineau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > You could train it with a publicly-available corpus of spam, but that > sort of defeats the purpose of the bayesian filter. It's highly > personalized. My mother-in-law, for example, loves to get stuff from > QVC and other similar online shopping places. Those messages almost > always score very high with "standard" scoring due to content. I > certainly don't want that junk, but she does. One man's trash is > another man's treasure.
That doesn't mean you can't use the publicly-available corpus. You would just want to go through and remove those spam messages that you DO want so that Bayes doesn't see them. -- + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Chris Barnes AOL IM: CNBarnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo IM: chrisnbarnes Computer Systems Manager ph: 979-845-7801 Department of Physics fax: 979-845-2590 Texas A&M University ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by OSDN's Audience Survey. Help shape OSDN's sites and tell us what you think. Take this five minute survey and you could win a $250 Gift Certificate. http://www.wrgsurveys.com/2003/osdntech03.php?site=8 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk