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Daniel Quinlan writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Mason) writes:
> 
> > eh, why drop the FP/FN from the summary line?  and it's missing a
> > newline ;)
> 
> Because those FP and FN numbers are the ones relative to the total
> number of messages rather than the amount of spam or ham.

They should be made relative to spam/ham, and reinstated.  otherwise
I'm -1 on that change.

Judging effectiveness by TCR alone is *not* a good idea.  TCR is sensitive
to the relative sizes of the spam/ham corpus if I recall correctly, and
also does not give a good idea of overall effectiveness as a single
figure. for example, very high FP will get a high TCR if the FNs
are low enough, whereas in real-world use, high FP is always to be
avoided.

- --j.
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