Bob Amen wrote:
Robert LeBlanc wrote:
The closest thing to a "standard" way of measuring a spam filter's effectiveness is the scientific model that medical researchers use for diagnostic tests. Even so, there are five separate tests, not just one:
Thank you for that very well written and helpful explanation! Now, do you have a script that computes the test values from a SA log file that you'd care to share?
Doh! I should have engaged brain before fingers. How would a script tell false positives and false negatives from a log file? It can't.
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