Matt Kettler wrote: > At 10:19 AM 1/23/2004, Mark Squire wrote: > >Hi all, > >I have been training SA manually for a couple of weeks now. I estimate > >a good 2000 emails for both Spam and Ham have been learned by it. > >Coupla questions though . . . I want to put it into auto-learn mode > >because I have only trained it on a few of our employees emails, and not > >people from the whole company. I think that SA needs to "get out more" > >and learn from a broader range of emails (if that makes sense). I > >wanted to be sure that it is okay to put it into auto-learn mode, even > >after I have been manually teaching it for a while. What do you good > >folks think? > > Auto-learning is not mutually exclusive with manual training. In fact, if > you are using auto learning, you SHOULD use manual training as well. > > Auto learning alone does NOT work, and will over time result in a pretty > skewed bayes database. It needs some manual training as well. > > However, autolearning is quite useful, it's just not good enough to be used > without ever training manually
And too, the stand disclaimer - it's nice if there can be a separate Bayes database for each user so it's tailored to them - learning based specifically on the given user's email, as opposed to a composite of all the users on your system. Bryan > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn -- I depict hope so vividly that every hopeful individual will recognize himself in my portrayal; and yet it is a fake, for while I depict it I am thinking of recollection. - (Soren Kierkegaard - Either/Or) http://www.wecs.com/content.htm This signature file is generated by Pick-a-Tag ! Written by Jeroen van Vaarsel http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=pick-a-tag ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
