http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5497





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2007-06-07 01:36 -------

> I don't think that the auto_learn_threshold should ever be blindly set to an
> arbitrary number. I might even argue that we should not try to provide a 
> default
> value for the autolearn threshold.
> 
> You can look over a large sample of ham and spam to see what makes sense as
> thresholds at your site. Without having to carefully verify every mail you
> probably can come up with a pretty good number for a score below which you can
> be pretty certain that you hardly ever see spam and another number for a score
> above which you never see ham. Then use those numbers.

in passing, this was suggested ages ago in bug 1829 as an alternative
autolearning algorithm; unfortunately that bug got derailed by random
discussion, and was never implemented :(  it's a good idea.



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