On Thu, 26 May 2005, Joe Zitnik wrote: > I think points can be made for both sides of the argument. The thing > that makes bayes different, is that a well trained bayes database is > specific to your environment. If you're a law firm, your learned ham is > going to be heavy in legalese, medical related org, heavy in that > terminology. Because spam and ham is learned specific to your > environment, it can make a big difference. > > >>> Jake Colman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 5/26/2005 10:08 AM >>> > > Given the rather complete set of rules that ship with SA and which can > expanded with SARE, does bayes learning really help? Won't the rules > catch > pretty much everything anyway?
Bayes definitely helps, but auto-learn can cause problems. Perhaps a better question would be, "Is autolearn really neccessary?" James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://3.am =========================================================================
