Hi Fritz, I'm only involved in this discussion as an interested bystander. I am very curious as to whether or not Michael has stumbled onto one of the biggest problems with Bayesian spam filters, and if he has also developed a brilliant solution using a mechanism of ASSP.
>> If the effectiveness of that feature is diminished due to the type >> of mail flowing through it or the kind of user using the >> filter... perhaps it should be re-evaluated from a fresh >> perspective? > The effectiveness is not diminished due to the type of mail flowing > through it or the kind of user using the filter. But that is precisely Michaels point... the effectiveness *was* diminished, due to 2 (I think he said 2) specific users who were *very* heavy senders of 'spammy' email, thus, apparently, 'polluting' the corpus by virtue of a lot of 'spammy' email being automatically added to the ham corpus because it was intentionally sent by those two users. It was the *fact* that more and more spam was getting by ASSP that started Michael looking into *why* - and he discovered why, and then developed a solution *which* *worked*. Now, are you saying that the 2 users who were sending lots of sppammy email weren't the cause of his problem at this site? Or are you saying that there is a better way to have handled it? > The effectiveness is diminished, if you start to do the valuation > manually. It is the wrong approach to discuss - and that is just my > meaning.( If I am allowed to a meaning). I certainly think your opinion has much more weight than anyone else's here, and far be it from me to even seriously consider trying to challenge you on it, but as a user, this issue does interest me. So, what would you suggest as the best approach for Michael (and others) to deal with this particular, peculiar situation? -- Best regards, Charles ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
