John Hardin writes:
 > From: John Hardin <[email protected]>
 > Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 07:29:03 -0700 (PDT)
 > 
 > On Sun, 11 Apr 2021, Loren Wilton wrote:
 > 
 > >>  3.5 BAYES_99               BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100%
 > >>                             [score: 1.0000]
 > >>  0.5 BAYES_999              BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99.9 to 100%
 > >>                             [score: 1.0000]
 > >
 > > I have 
 > > 5.0 BAYES_99               BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99 to 100%
 > >                           [score: 1.0000]
 > > 0.2 BAYES_999              BODY: Bayes spam probability is 99.9 to 100%
 > >                           [score: 1.0000]
 > >
 > > I suggest raising BAYES_99 to at least 5.
 > 
 > It'd be better to instead boost BAYES_999 to Poison Pill status, as the 
 > confidence is higher.

Increasing the score for BAYES_99 and BAYES_999 is a fine idea as long
as bayes is accurately trained and well maintained with sufficient
email and any mistakes corrected.  People with that sort of trained
bayes tend to know it.  Doing a general suggestion to increase the
BAYES scores seems rather misguided.

-jeff

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