>in wiki://BayesInSpamAssassin it is said: >Do not train Bayes on different mail streams or public spam >corpora. These method will mislead Bayes into believing >certain tokens are spammy or hammy when they are not. > >Could you explain why it is so, and what could happen if to >teach nayes from several mail servers ?
The idea in training bayes is to train it for your server. Using someone else's mail to train it results in a bayes server trained for their email. Their email may or may not resemble what you consider as spam or ham. That is what the problem is. ================================= Kevin W. Gagel Network Administrator Information Technology Services (250) 562-2131 local 448 My Blog: http://mail.cnc.bc.ca/blogs/gagel ------------------------------------------------------------------- The College of New Caledonia, Visit us at http://www.cnc.bc.ca Virus scanning is done on all incoming and outgoing email. Anti-spam information for CNC can be found at http://avas.cnc.bc.ca -------------------------------------------------------------------
