>-----Original Message----- >From: Jake Colman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:09 AM >To: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: Is Bayes Really Necessary? > > > >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?
Oh my favorite subject!!! :) NO! Bayes is not necessary. IMHO, for personal use, it is incredible. But I feel the care of it is more difficult then your average user would care to keep up. For site wide, I'm pretty much against it. I know people will argue that point. I'm obviously biased towards SARE rules updated with RDJ. And the use of URIBL.com lists. But these allow a general users, or a sitewide install to "set and forget". Which is what we strive for, so SA can be more widley excepted. I have a 99% filter rate without bayes. And I'm proud of that. Chris Santerre System Admin and SARE/URIBL Ninja http://www.rulesemporium.com http://www.uribl.com
