On 5/2/07, Wilhelm Klenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thank you very much for answering my emergency-call. A few days before you > answered I bought a new PC with Vista and office 2007. I also installed > Spambayes on this system and - don't ask me why - after a few "recover from > spam" klicks my voice-mails where not spamfiltered anymore. > > Maybe the database on the old installation XP/OL2003 got a litte bit funny > after ~ 18 month of duty.
That's actually a pretty typical result. When people report that they are having problems training the filter to handle certain types of messages, the most common cause is that the training database has become significantly "unbalanced". After you've been training the filter for a long period of time, you may notice that you've trained significantly more spam messages than good, or vice versa. That can negatively impact the accuracy of the filter in general, but it can also make training more difficult because you have to overcome the imbalance before the filter will be able to classify the new type of messages correctly. -- Kenny Pitt _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
