Avik Pal writes: > Meanwhile It would be much appreciated if someone can direct me to > an labeled dataset available on line.
By "labelled" you mean pre-classified into spam vs ham? I see you already found one, but you could also check the SpamBayes and SpamAssassin distributions. > Here I have a suggestion, after submitting, whenever an email is > classified as Spam, we store it in a separate archive and after the > end of the day send them a mail telling "this is the digest for all > the mails that Mailman thinks to be Spam" the subscriber may go > there and can view them and also can mark them as not Spam, I suggest that you present this as an option for users who want to tune the filters, and as something that can be used pre-release to develop the initial parameters for the distributed classifier. Although Bayesian classifiers do offer the option to train or tune your personal classifier on a local corpus, most users just stick with the distribution parameters plus self-training. It's pretty effective (surprisingly so to me). I guess the logic is that spammers aren't terribly creative. > Emails which stays as Spam will be dropped after a month Let's think carefully about that. Everybody deletes the spam; that's why you started by asking for a labelled dataset, because nobody keeps one around. Somebody really ought to do the public service of collecting a corpus. Of course, if you do arrange to keep it around, it's going to need to be an option that sites and list owners can disable. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
