Charles Marcus wrote:
> This is very interesting, Michael, because I agree, Bayesian based 
> systems definitely have always seemed to have problems in my experience 
> (start out pretty good, then go downhill from there), and maybe what you 
> are describing is the precise reason for it. It would be awesome if you 
> could find the time to write up a little how-to for this and put it up 
> on the wiki (or have you done so already?), complete with some example 
> regex's that you have found to help.
>
> Anyway, thanks already for everything you've described up to now.

You're welcome.  I only hope its useful information to the minority of 
us that have experienced this problem.  I count 8-10 people so far that 
are in agreement with my off-line of the list, but I know there are 
countless more that use other Bayesian-based products.

I don't like to bring this issue up, because as Fritz *rightfully* 
points out, this is not the way the Bayesian filtering is meant to 
function.  But, perhaps that needs to be re-thought, because in some 
organizations Bayesian functionality begins to spiral degrade after a 
few months of "normal" use.

I have thought about writing something up for the Wiki specifically in 
regards to this issue, but this is still more of a personal hypothesis 
than a fact - and I don't want to add needless confusion to any new or 
existing users until there is more of a consensus that this is indeed a 
problem and viable solution.

When I get to writing an article explaining the reRe, I will also add 
some of my basic Regular Expressions as I did with the bombRe and 
scriptRe article - but I won't be adding everything that I use to avoid 
"pollution", as it would not be applicable to all users.


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