> The false positive ratio is determined by dividing the number of > legitimate E-mails that were treated as spam and dividing by the > total number of legitimate E-mails. That's just how the formula > works.
Genuinely if an alternative "lay definition" had taken root, I took a look around, and... http://www.lyris.com/mshelp/Whatisthefalse_positiverate_.html "Question: What percentage of legit messages will MailShield filter out accidentally? The current version of MailShield has a false positive rate of about one in 1000 messages when you use the default settings. As you change the default settings to be more or less strict, your false positive rates will change accordingly." http://research.microsoft.com/~joshuago/spamconferenceshort.ppt "False Positive Rate (percent good caught as spam)..." http://www.brightmail.com/pressreleases/030303_.html "...Brightmail having improved its industry leading false positive rate to 1 false positive in 1 million messages. " ...nope, I don't think so. -Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
