[PLUG] Training corpus for bayesian spamassassin

[Wil Cooley]

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 10:05, Keith Lofstrom wrote:

> It is superficially plausible to train the bayesian filter on
> spamassassin with just the misclassified false positives and
> false negatives.  For the last week or so, I have been running 
> spamassassin with the bayesian filter and training turned off,
> to see what kinds of mistakes it makes with the heuristic rules.
> It seems to pass about 30% of the spam (false negative) and trap
> about 5% (false positive!!) of the ham, with the threshold set
> to 3.0 and a whole bunch of addresses whitelisted.

Is the 3.0 the threshold for marking as spam or ham?  3.0 is really low
for spam; I use 6.3 and rarely get any false positives that aren't
newsletters or things like that.

Wil
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