On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:14:53 +1200, Tony Meyer wrote:

>> By the way, I've noticed SPAM that used to be classified as SPAM is
>> now being DEFER'ed. I find this behaviour odd, since 85% of my
>> e-mail is SPAM, and always has been.

>By "DEFER'ed", do you mean that it's classified as unsure?

Yes, unsure.

>This could be
>either new types of spam, or as a result of new training (e.g. a training
>mistake, a growing imbalance).

My current balance is 66% SPAM, 33% HAM. (Spam: 3082  Ham: 1096)
Could this cause the problem?

>The way to figure out why a message scores what it does is to look at the
>clues for that message (there's a link on the review page).  If it's not
>obvious why it scored what it did, then you can send a copy on to
>[email protected] and someone will comment on it.
>It's possible that the problem can be fixed by adjusting your thresholds
>(the defaults are fairly conservative).

I'll take a gander at the clues and see if it's something stupid
that I did.


Sincerely,
Andrew Burns
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