Dnia 10.01.2026 o godz. 12:14:46 Slavko via mailop pisze: > > Despite all of this, they trust the system absolutely, claiming that > > it has a negligible false positive rate. > > ...and silently don't mention the false negative rate? ;-) > > BTW, that rate is nice (long time ago Brandon provided some numbers). > But when one take into account amount of messages, the 1 % (or even > 0,01 %) is pretty high number of messages...
In my opinion (and it always was so), low false positive rate (I prefer to call it in statistical terms, rate of second kind errors) is much more important than low false negative rate (rate of first kind errors). False negative rate of 1% means that out of 100 spams, one lands in your inbox. False positive rate of 1% means that out of 100 "real" messages, one is rejected as spam. If you receive 100 spam messages a day, which is pretty high and I think very few people receive that much (unless someone is a target of mail bombing), you can live with one spam daily in your inbox, it's no problem to delete it manually. But if you receive 100 legitimate messages per week, and you miss even one of them, you may miss something VERY important. You never know. -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa [email protected] -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
