Bart Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Feeding the Bayes rules through the scoring algorithm seems to imply a > lack of trust in the accuracy of the classifier.
Mostly not. It's needed to map from the 0 to 1.0 "probability" to the SpamAssassin threshold-based scoring method. Even in more pure Bayesian systems, users still have to figure out where to put stuff into the spam bucket and it's often not at 0.50. Our technique avoids the problem of people having two different calibrations. Plus, there's the lack of trust thing, but that's a lesser factor. I think we could use a better way to merge Bayesian results into the SpamAssassin score, though. Daniel -- Daniel Quinlan ApacheCon! 13-17 November (3 SpamAssassin http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/ http://www.apachecon.com/ sessions & more)
