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To do the best possible job of catching spam, SpamBayes
needs to be well-trained. This means letting it know what you think is spam and
what you think is ham (not spam). If you're using the Outlook plug-in, training
it is simply a matter of using the "Spam" or "Not Spam" button whenever it fails
to classify something correctly.
Once SpamBayes is well-trained, you may find it useful to
alter the cutoffs for "Possible Spam" and/or "Certain Spam." In particular, if
you find that you frequently get messages that are somewhat below the
cutoff for "Certain Spam" and that such messages are never ham, you can
lower that cutoff. It's set fairly high by default to avoid incorrectly
classifying ham as spam. (In the absurd extreme case, you'd set it so low that
all messages were classified as spam. This literally satisfies your request to
"catch the most spam," at the cost of treating your ham as spam as well, which I
doubt is what you want.) If you're using the Outlook plug-in, you can adjust the
thresholds for Possible Spam and Certain Spam on the Filtering tab of the
SpamBayes Manager. Click the SpamBayes button on the Outlook toolbar,
select SpamBayes Manager... from the menu that pops up, and click the Filtering
tab.
There are lots of obscure settings that you can mess with,
but unless you really know what you're doing, you're unlikely to improve the
classification; the defaults are well-chosen. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Gregory Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 8:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Spambayes] Spam Bayes Settings What settings should I set SpamBayes at to catch the most spam?
David L. Gregory Environmental Science Technician EDWARDS AQUIFER AUTHORITY 1615 North St. Mary's Street San Antonio, Texas 78215 Phone:(210) 222-2204 Fax:(210) 222-9869
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