Re: lowering your spam threshold howto

2007-02-23 Thread Jo Rhett
On Feb 21, 2007, at 11:42 PM, R Lists06 wrote: Do you use bayes_auto_learn ? I am sure you know I don't mean AWL baloney. ;-) Hm. Your experience differs from mine. I tried using bayes, spent hundreds of hours training bayes with lots of good mail from archives, and lots of bad mail,

RE: lowering your spam threshold howto

2007-02-23 Thread R Lists06
Hm. Your experience differs from mine. I tried using bayes, spent hundreds of hours training bayes with lots of good mail from archives, and lots of bad mail, and never got better than .5% (point- five or .005) difference in spam detection. So we stopped using it. In comparison, we've

RE: lowering your spam threshold howto

2007-02-21 Thread R Lists06
It's very simple. Tag messages above your soft limit and put them in a different folder. Check the folder periodically for false positives. Try to identify why they are FP. Look carefully at all of your normal mail, and confirm where it normally scores. Lower your score limit to the