At 11:48 PM Thursday 7/9/2009, John Williams wrote:
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Doug Pensinger<brig...@zo.com> wrote:
> I'd estimate the efficiency of my gmail filter is 99% or better.
That is a particularly uninformative statistic.
Much more interesting would be two figures: probability of false
positives ( number of real marked as spam / number of real), and
probability of false negatives (number spam passed as real / number of
spam).
Yep. I can tell you how to easily guarantee that you will never get
//any// spam on your mail account . . .
. . . ronn! :)
I always knew that I would see the first man on the Moon.
I never dreamed that I would see the last.
--Dr. Jerry Pournelle
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