On 2024-10-15 at 22:05:07 UTC-0400 (Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:05:07 -0400)
Alex <mysqlstud...@gmail.com>
is rumored to have said:
I can imagine the newsletter template is somewhat common, but does
bayes
have any ability to distinguish a junk newsletter from a legitimate
newsletter?
Not if it has never seen either of them.
Bayesian classification is not magic, but it does do better than random
guessing by someone who is not the target of the message, IF it has
been trained on similar mail that has been properly classified.
I realize there's somewhat of an imbalance between hams and
spams, but shouldn't there be enough?
Absolutely. But the Bayes classifier can't classify mail of types that
have been meticulously excluded from its training corpus.
Would I benefit from training known trustworthy newsletters such as
ham?
Yes. And train the spam ones as spam.
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