User Witr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> The reason I wanted to do in in the middle of the TMDA pipeline is
> that the (potentially expensive) classification operation could be
> avoided in all but the relatively few cases where confirmation was
> indicated (about 10% of the time for me).

The success of the Bayesian technique that Paul Graham describes
depends on a rich history of both spam and non-spam messages being
assembled.  Thus, you'd want it to see all your mail, not just 10% of
it.

> Of course the filter-then-TMDA versus TMDA-then-filter issue depends
> to a certain extent on the relative expense of filter versus TMDA,
> and for all I know bayesian filtering might be faster than TMDA...

This is a subjective statement since "faster" will vary widely
depending on the particular TMDA configuration (particularly # of
incoming filter rules, what those rules are composed of, the size and
content of your lists, etc.).

I personally don't see much value in TMDA-then-filter since the only
messages that will make it past TMDA should be legitimate ones.
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