> Perhaps no one should be as brave or foolhardy as me, but my Spam  
> Cutoff is
> 0.39, and I never have a false positive -- and I've been running  
> SpamBayes
> for 18 months.

Note that there's a reasonably large risk in setting the threshold/ 
cutoff below 0.5.  Messages that really don't look like anything that  
has been seen before (or look a lot like both ham and spam) will  
score around 0.5.  So if you get mail from a new source, which is  
quite different from any other ham, then this could mean that it ends  
up being a false positive.  (The ham/spam balance probably has a  
large effect on this, as well, I suppose).

OTOH, if it works for you, then keep using it.  I wouldn't recommend  
it to others, though.

=Tony.Meyer

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