"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.


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