Matus UHLAR - fantomas writes: > > > Paolo De Marco schrieb: > > > > Sometimes only bayes tests hit mails, so i recieve mail whit only bayes > > > > point (for exemple: X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.5 tagged_above=-999 > > > > required=5 tests=[BAYES_99=3.5]) > > > > Does anyone raise up the score of bayesan test? Is it safe? > > > Matthias Haegele writes: > > > afaik it is not recommended to raise the Bayes Score > > > You could do it but keep in mind if bayes is "misguided" your higher > > > score hits. > > > (With a well trained bayes it seems reasonable to me) > > > Perhaps you could find some additional rules/network tests ... > > > (sare-rules, razor, dcc, pyzor etc (watch licenses if you could use > > > them)). > > > > > > On new "few lines text" spam i often get bayes_00 so it is not always > > > useful. > > On 20.12.07 11:53, Justin Mason wrote: > > Actually, that's not quite right -- it's perfectly fine to raise the > > BAYES_99 score, if you feel you've trained it well enough. > > IIUC the main problem with higher score is that many people don't know how > to train bayes properly, and then often treat unwanted messages (e.g. from > mailing lists they have subscribed to) as spam.
Yes, it's important that you must be confident in your training before you do this. > however the scores 3.5 for BAYES_99 and -2.6 for BAYES_00 are often treated > as too low and I've seen many requests to make them higher (in absolute > value). The problem with adjusting scores is that when someone starts doing > it, many things can happen... --j.
