Hi, Dave - We don't have anything else learning because we deal in such bulk. We're an email service provider hosting hundreds of thousands of accounts.
Re: Your last line about "I don't understand what their concerns are" ....... Welcome to my world. Right now I am manually writing rules - custom rules - based on the subject lines (only the subject lines) of spam that gets reported to us. We are very very clearly Doing It Wrong, so I'm trying to find a way to do it better. As far as why we can't have Bayes and DCC on at the same time.... I've got no idea. I just work here, Dave! :) Thank you for your response. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Dave Warren <da...@hireahit.com> wrote: > On 2013-05-28 13:43, Andrew Talbot wrote: > >> As some of you may have known from talking with me over the past few >> weeks, I've been having a difficult time 'selling' my bosses on the idea of >> Bayes; it simply doesn't seem to do anything new to them. But looking at >> the data today, I came up with an idea: use Bayes to reduce false positives. >> > > Do you have anything else that heuristically learns from your mail and > adapts in real-time to your mail flow? > > > > >> That would mean we'd completely nerf the rules that add points to the >> score, but we'd trust Bayes to subtract points from messages it is >> confident are ham. >> >> I am aware of how silly that sounds. But would it work? We don't have >> another way to filter out false positives - we've got tons of ways to add >> points! >> >> What do ya'll think? >> > > I think it's a great idea, but that I wouldn't zero out the positive score > unless it's hurting you, I think I'd just let it do what it does. > > If it saves you a subscription service, then that alone should be a strong > selling point, unless there are false positives (and if so, I'd look into > tuning your ham training before abandoning all hope) > > I guess part of it is that I don't understand what their concerns are with > using Bayesian learning? > > -- > Dave Warren > http://www.hireahit.com/ > http://ca.linkedin.com/in/**davejwarren<http://ca.linkedin.com/in/davejwarren> > >
