SA only self-trains above a threshold. Before 3.0 there is no indication as to the difference between a message that hasn't been autolearned because it wasn't above a threshhold and spam that was not autolearned because it had already been processed. If something is run through the autolearn engine, it'll get marked AUTOLEARN=SPAM or AUTOLEARN=HAM.
In SA 3.0 it's a bit different. There are now 6 different states. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to find the documentation on that. Joseph On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:07:07 -0500, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I only train SA with either: > > 1) Spam which got through (false negatives). > 2) Ham which triggered a false positive and was mistakenly marked as spam. > > As I understand it SA automatically trains itself on spam which it > traps to tune on what spam techniques are au courant. > > I haven't seen too much in the way of false positives out of SA in > quite a while. The gmail spam filter on the other hand seems to get a > few false positives every week. > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:46:17 -0500, Brian Henning > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > As I'm sure the postmasters among us are well-aware, in order to keep > > my Bayesian filter working efficiently, it's occasionally necessary to > > retrain it for new tacks the spammers have invented. My question is > > thus: Is it "safe" and/or wise to train with only -spam input? Our > > non-spam profile hasn't changed much, so the previous -ham training > > ought to still be valid...right? Or do I need to somehow balance the > > training "sessions" with equal parts -spam and -ham even though the -ham > > still looks about the same? > > > > Thanks as always, > > ~Brian > > -- > > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- Joseph Tate Personal e-mail: jtate AT dragonstrider DOT com Web: http://www.dragonstrider.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
