on Fri Jul 27 2007, skip-AT-pobox.com wrote: > Brendon> I've just started using spambayes again after a while away from > Brendon> it. Now, 3 days in, I notice that I've trained on far more > Brendon> spam than ham. (Total emails trained: Spam: *432* Ham: *64) I > Brendon> seem to remember that this was previously my experience in the > Brendon> past. > > Are you training on every message you receive or just the mistakes? Most > people generally only train on the mistakes and unsures. Your ratio is > about 7:1. That's a bit high.
Even training only on mistakes and unsures, I have had a steadily increasing ratio for months. I almost never see a misclassified ham and only very rarely a ham about which the system is unsure. It's unsure about spam every day. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com The Astoria Seminar ==> http://www.astoriaseminar.com _______________________________________________ SpamBayes@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
