Re: Good idea or bad idea?

[Rick Macdougall]

Chris Santerre wrote:
The 1:1 ratio is a mistake based on a wrong interpretation of 
the bayes=20
theorem. I have a ham : spam ratio of 1 : 40.

Also:
"I thing bayes is a very good addition to individual rules. And when it's  
trained propper it works fine. "

I agree on a personal scale it works wonders if you *continue* to feed it a
proper diet. But when you get to a more general server side solution, I
don't think the results are worth the effort, when one can write a simple
rule faster then training. 

IMHO if it only works on a personal level, or a very small company level,
its not a good solution. (Mainly because the starfish out there can't even
work their microwaves, nevermind feed bayes!)
--Chris 
Works great here at the ISP level, about 40K users.  I let it auto learn 
for awhile (a few weeks) then turn off the auto-learning and feed it myself.

Regards,
Rick