Gerry Doris wrote: > I managed to destroy my bayes database...don't ask. > > Since I only run a home system and don't receive a heavy flow of spam I > really like to skip the wait for bayes to get up to speed. Is it > recommended to use the public corpus on the SA website or is it too old > for proper training? Is there a better source of ham/spam to > be used for training?
Bayes' effectiveness lies in its personalization. There's little value in training it on a public corpus. I assume you didn't back up your Bayes database... and that you've deleted all your spam so you can't retrain it... Best thing to do is just wait for it to rebuild itself. The default spam/ham counter values are 200 spam and 200 ham. I believe you can tweak these if you REALLY want to start auto-tagging sooner... but you void the warranty if you do...
