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>  From: Glenn Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  
>  Can anyone at all help here?  I am really at a loss.
>  Since writing the previous msgs, I threw away our bayes db and
>  re-seeded it with all new ham and spam.  But still, the
>  bayes numbers come back (when seen in spamassassin -D mode)
>  as either 0.5, or something really wacky.
>  
>  Help?  What would cause that?  Does this make any sense at all?
>  
>  Thanks in advance...
>  
>               -glenn
>  
>  Glenn Little wrote:
>  
>  > Can anyone at least confirm my belief that when I
>  > run in debug mode, the bayes *is supposed to be* between 0
>  > and 1?
>  > 
>  > I've just run several more mails through, and each
>  > one either gets a 0.5 on the nose, or something wild
>  > like "1073741825" or  "5.5456855864500381703780513521021e+239"
>  > or a negative number like in "b" below.
>  > 
>  > The listing of tokens and their bayes values are all themselves
>  > between 0 and 1.
>  > 
>  > Do we have a problem?  Any guesses on what causes the multitude
>  > of 0.5?  How about the super big or super small or negative scores?
>  > 
>  >         -glenn
>  > 
>  > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>  > 
>  >> Most of our spam is not getting a BAYES_nn component.  It looks like
>  >> this is for two reasons:
>  >>
>  >> a) most of the spam scores as exactly 0.5 (which is the only score
>  >> that gets no BAYES component, if I read 23_bayes.cf correctly):
>  >>
>  >>   debug: bayes: score = 0.5
>  >>   debug: bayes: 27847 untie-ing
>  >>   debug: bayes: 27847 untie-ing db_toks
>  >>   debug: bayes: 27847 untie-ing db_seen
>  >>
>  >> b) some of the spam scores with a number like this:
>  >>
>  >>   debug: bayes: score = -2.71172928721008841549952206070871e+1133
>  >>
>  >> What does that mean?
>  >>
>  >>
>  >> So my question is, is something wrong?  What does it mean for the
>  >> majority of our spam to get a bayes score of exactly 0.5?
>  >>
>  >> And why do we get numbers like in b)? 
>  >> Thanks in advance for any help or pointers.
>  >>
>  >>         -glenn
>  >>
>  >>
>  

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