-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Tom,
Friday, June 13, 2003, 9:38:10 AM, you wrote: TM> I'm kind of confused here. The way I see it (which could very well TM> be a misunderstanding, mind you) is that the reason it autolearns TM> spam over 15 points by default is to make darned sure that it doesn't TM> learn a false positive. Agreed. TM> Then one would augment its learning by feeding missed spams through TM> sa-learn. That's exactly what I do. TM> The only reason I can think of to NOT feed low-scoring spams through TM> sa-learn is that I've decided that a spam that scores 5.x points has TM> no interesting tokens. Quite the opposite is true; that's why we TM> feed it with a corpus of known spam in the first place, rather than TM> feeding it a corpus of known spam that has been run through TM> spamassassin manually and the under-15 spams weeded out. Agreed. Once Bayes has enough experience with our email, that non-autolearn email which Bayes gives an 80%+ probability to probably doesn't need to be manually learned as spam, unless it falls at/under the required threshold and we need to raise that spam's score. However, I believe that feeding spam which scores 70% or less into Bayes, confirming to it that yes, this is spam, helps Bayes do its job better. TM> Same goes with hand-feeding hams that score 4.x points, in the theory TM> that there's a fixed probability that a ham from that source will at TM> some point trigger another test and trip it over the threshold. With recognition that the point at which we choose to hand-feed hams can vary. With my required level at 9, I'm not overly concerned with hams that score 4.x -- they're not significantly near the spam threshold yet. I pay more attention to their Bayes score (if Bayes can't judge whether a single email is spam/ham, then I will likely teach it that the email is ham) and the uniqueness or source of the email (if it's the type of ham I suspect Bayes hasn't seen, I'll feed it; if it's from some source I want all emails to be seen as ham, I'll feed it). TM> Perhaps I misunderstand. If so, I'd appreciate alternate viewpoints TM> and discussion. Mine is not a developer's knowledge -- just speaking from personal experience of only a month or so. Bob Menschel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBPurIYJebK8E4qh1HEQJRQgCfSf8UoTW5mDcD4mpspcjubCYHmIwAoPT2 Eg2nS97u9Lm54UBNucgd4QI/ =YtMZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: eBay Great deals on office technology -- on eBay now! Click here: http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
