Re: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

[Joe Zitnik]

I think points can be made for both sides of the argument.  The thing that makes bayes different, is that a well trained bayes database is specific to your environment.  If you're a law firm, your learned ham is going to be heavy in legalese, medical related org, heavy in that terminology.  Because spam and ham is learned specific to your environment, it can make a big difference. >>> Jake Colman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/26/2005 10:08 AM >>> Given the rather complete set of rules that ship with SA and which can expanded with SARE, does bayes learning really help?  Won't the rules catch pretty much everything anyway? -- Jake Colman Sr. Applications Developer Principia Partners LLC Harborside Financial Center 1001 Plaza Two Jersey City, NJ 07311 (201) 209-2467 www.principiapartners.com