On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:04:42 -0600 "Savoy, Jim" <sa...@uleth.ca> wrote:
not sure how much effect adding AWL to my config helped with my > corpus coming into balance (perhaps it was only the change to my ham > threshold that made the difference), The AWL score isn't counted for autolearning and neither is the the Bayes score or whitelisting rules. So by taking the threshold down to -3.0, you wont be learning much ham at all unless you have a lot of good negative scoring custom rules. IMO trying to find a particular ham threshold that brings the ratio into balance is not a good idea because you can become far too selective in what you learn, and end-up learning the least useful candidates. Probably better to periodically push the threshold down to -100 until the numbers balance.
