On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:18:54AM -0700, Bob La Quey wrote:
I have 543 messages in my Spam folder. Maybe 5 were false positives, i.e. messages I would normally look at. My point (not well made) was that because gmail does a good job of spam filtering I do not ever worry about it.
I wouldn't consider 1% false positives to be good enough. I would consider that many orders of magnitude too high. I get way too many spams to actually look at them very often. I'd rather get the occasional false negative, as long as the false positive rate is very low. It's actually hard for me to know what my false positive rate is, since I don't find them any more. I only look occasionally, so I certainly could be missing messages. I'm quite impressed with Spam Assassin. Many years ago, I gave it a block of spam/ham, but I think all of those messages have expired from the Bayesian database. It learns messages that various blacklists qualify as spam, and seems to then learn about other messages. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
