Hello Chris, Don, Wednesday, March 31, 2004, 7:52:32 AM, you wrote:
CT> Don Newcomer said: >> For those of you who have chosen to customize your Bayes scoring, what are >> you using instead of the defaults? The number of times I see spam pick up >> a -4.90 bugs me but I don't want to do anything rash. Any input would be >> appreciated. CT> $0.02: CT> Leave the bayes scoring as-is. If you receive spam with BAYES_00, nuke CT> and re-train your bayes DB (by hand is preferred). You should almost CT> NEVER get BAYES_00 with a properly trained bayes DB. Agreed, with one caveat -- if you increase your required hits threshold, AND IF your Bayes system is well trained and accurate, then you also want to increase the scores for BAYES_90 and BAYES_99 accordingly. If you use bunches and bunches of custom rules, and your non-spam scores are creeping up, you may also want to decrease (make more negative) the BAYES_10 and BAYES_01 scores (though I haven't found that to be necessary here). Bob Menschel
