On Mon, 30 Nov 2015 20:45:25 +0000 Sebastian Arcus wrote: > After > setting up a site-wide bayes database as per the wiki instructions > and fixing file permissions etc., and feeding it about 300 spam > messages (I don't get a lot of spam in general) and 12,000 ham > messages of my own hand sorted email, the score for the same sample > spam message I mentioned in my original post jumped from 1.4 to > 104.5 !! > > I had no idea that bayes filtering can have such a dramatic effect on > a message with only a small amount of text in it!
It doesn't. At most it adds 3.7 points with default scores. You've probably picked-up more points from net tests, but it's still a huge change.
