At Sun Dec 28 21:33:40 2003, Evan Platt wrote: > >Also, I've got passed the 200 spams breakpoint for bayes but now it > >seems that I need 200 hams also before bayes will kick in. here's a > >fragment from my procmail file > > Well, kind of. You generally need a equal number of hams to spams for it to > work.
No. You *do* need a minimum of 200 hams. The reason behind this is that for Bayes to work, it needs to know *both* what spam looks like *and* what ham looks like so it can tell the difference. But yes, it is best to have a vaguely equal number of both ham and spam (but you can easily have more than twice as many ham as spam or vice-versa and still have Bayes work well). Martin -- Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | men just upload their important stuff -o) Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the world /\\ - see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
