----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> Here's what I've seen to date using a Perl script I've written to monitor
> the results.  I'll leave the test active for a while longer but I've
reduced
> the weight of the MTLDB test to 0.
>
> Unless the database gets cleaned up, I don't see this as a useable test.
At
> the moment, hp.com, sun.com, sourceforge.net, and declude.com are all in
the
> database.
>
> The numbers in [] below are the final weight of each email that failed the
> MTLDB test. This particular script calls an email spam at a weight of 5+.
>
>                   Total               Weight
> Date            Mail Spam MTLDB  20+  10+   5+   <5
> 7/9             1059  392    4 [   1    1    0    2]
> 7/10             577  438    1 [   0    0    1    0]
> 7/11             442  358    1 [   1    0    0    0]
> 7/12             956  390   91 [  43    3    3   42]
> 7/13            1044  436  169 [  47    3    9  110]
> 7/14            1100  416   95 [   7    1    3   84]
> 7/15             959  424  130 [   4    5    6  115]
> 7/16 (partial)   583  237   68 [   1    1    3   63]
>
> Total           5661 2699  555 [ 103   13   25  414]

I had decided to retry the test this morning and have once again disabled
it, finding the test unusable - so this confirms my findings, as well.  I
would do better running the MTLDB as a negative weight test than a positive
one, as most of the messages that fail the test are not spam.

Bill

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