On Tue, 29 Mar 2011, Max wrote:
For a while we were getting spam messages that had images embedded as text
and not an attachment. Those are marked as spam but couldn't the random
characters of the image data increase the entropy of the database and cause
some less than definitive scores?
I'm pretty sure that the content of images does not affect Bayes.
That aside. It seems like all my ham is bellow 0 so would changing the cut
off to something like 2.0 be bad practice?
In general it is not recommended.
All of the score generation is done with the assumption the threshold is 5
points. If you lower your threshold you are risking an increase in FPs.
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