> > > > On 12-Sep-2009, at 10:27, Clunk Werclick wrote:
> > > > > I disagree. It can do as much harm as good. My own view and
> > > > > observation from the past have rendered it pointless in my context. It
> > > > > adds latency, is easily poisoned and rarely makes much difference to
> > > > > the score. I do appreciate some people like it, but my own view is
> > > > > spam has moved on beyond the point of it being useful.
> > 
> > > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 16:37 -0600, LuKreme wrote:
> > > > Facts? we don't need no pesky facts. You are very misinformed.
> > 
> > On 14.09.09 08:48, Clunk Werclick wrote:
> > > Myself, I've seen some very poor Bayesian databases where users have
> > > been allowed to categorize mail as spam-v-ham. One company who deal with
> > > Pharmaceuticals for famine relief in Uganda and other poor African
> > > countries found bayes to mess with their core mail to a point that made
> > > it worthless in their context.

> On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 11:46 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> > I would say that is a result of badly trained BAYES, not fgrom its bad
> > design. 

On 14.09.09 12:06, Clunk Werclick wrote:
> The *issue* with bayes is it *can* have user input. Would you trust your
> users influencing system wide policy? 

That only happens if you allow your users to train system-wide BAYES.
However this is usually also called "misconfiguration" - in common
situations either users have their own bayes databases, or they can't train
the site-wide one.

> > If you insist on not using bayes, just because it can be mistrained,
> > better don't use any configurable software, because _everything_
> > configurable will go wrong if miscongured.

> I've already stated I'll try it. So read the fucking follow up before
> shouting your thick foreign mouth off you stupid cunt!

I have read your previous posts, I only wanted to react on some of your
"arguments".
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