Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/20/2014 2:09 PM, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February 20, 2014 1:56:18 PM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail is alleged to have said: People have hard_coded BAYES_999 entries as well. I recommend forwarding the announcement from John to the other mailing lists you are aware of these discussions.

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-20 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 20, 2014 1:56:18 PM -0500, Kevin A. McGrail is alleged to have said: People have hard_coded BAYES_999 entries as well. I recommend forwarding the announcement from John to the other mailing lists you are aware of these discussions. --As for the rest, it is mine. I intend t

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-20 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/20/2014 1:31 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February 20, 2014 9:23:56 AM -0800, John Hardin is alleged to have said: BAYES_99 is being reverted to its original definition and BAYES_999 is being converted to an overlapping additive rule that add

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-20 Thread John Hardin
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Daniel Staal wrote: --As of February 20, 2014 9:23:56 AM -0800, John Hardin is alleged to have said: BAYES_99 is being reverted to its original definition and BAYES_999 is being converted to an overlapping additive rule that adds some more points to BAYES_99 for the ve

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-20 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of February 20, 2014 9:23:56 AM -0800, John Hardin is alleged to have said: BAYES_99 is being reverted to its original definition and BAYES_999 is being converted to an overlapping additive rule that adds some more points to BAYES_99 for the very top end of Bayes score. If you have locall

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-20 Thread Dave Pooser
On 2/20/14 11:23 AM, "John Hardin" wrote: >BAYES_99 is being reverted to its original definition and BAYES_999 is >being converted to an overlapping additive rule that adds some more points >to BAYES_99 for the very top end of Bayes score. >This should go out within the next couple of rule upd

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-20 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Dave Pooser wrote: BAYES_99 used to hit for emails that the naive Bayesian classifier identified as 99% to 100% spam. BAYES_99 is now split into two rules to give it finer gradient on scores for different percentages: BAYES_99 99% to 99.9% BAYES_999 99.9% to 100% It woul

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-19 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/19/2014 9:37 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: On 2/18/2014 8:49 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 2/18/2014 6:05 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:58 PM, John Hardin wrote: Is there some reason the Bayes scores can't/shouldn't be static? Indeed, I am wondering why Bayes would be auto-scor

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-19 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 2/18/2014 8:49 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 2/18/2014 6:05 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:58 PM, John Hardin wrote: Is there some reason the Bayes scores can't/shouldn't be static? Indeed, I am wondering why Bayes would be auto-scored at all. By definition, Bayes high scor

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-18 Thread Dave Pooser
On 2/18/14 8:52 PM, "Kevin A. McGrail" wrote: >I am not disagreeing it would have been an interesting approach but the >rules were promoted accidentally to begin with. I'm just doing triage >to get things functional right now Totally understand, and I didn't mean to whinge. The bright side is i

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/18/2014 5:54 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: I use several meta rules that include BAYES_99 and now I'm having to go rewrite those rules to include (BAYES_99 || BAYES_999). Which raises the question-- is there a performance hit for making meta rules include other meta rules? That is: is meta_DP

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/18/2014 5:44 PM, Dave Pooser wrote: BAYES_99 used to hit for emails that the naive Bayesian classifier identified as 99% to 100% spam. BAYES_99 is now split into two rules to give it finer gradient on scores for different percentages: BAYES_99 99% to 99.9% BAYES_999 99.9% to 100% It would

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/18/2014 6:05 PM, Amir Caspi wrote: On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:58 PM, John Hardin wrote: Is there some reason the Bayes scores can't/shouldn't be static? Indeed, I am wondering why Bayes would be auto-scored at all. By definition, Bayes high scores should match only on spam, low scores should

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-18 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/18/2014 5:58 PM, John Hardin wrote: On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Dave Pooser wrote: BAYES_99 used to hit for emails that the naive Bayesian classifier identified as 99% to 100% spam. BAYES_99 is now split into two rules to give it finer gradient on scores for different percentages: BAYES_99 99

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-18 Thread Amir Caspi
On Feb 18, 2014, at 3:58 PM, John Hardin wrote: > > Is there some reason the Bayes scores can't/shouldn't be static? > Indeed, I am wondering why Bayes would be auto-scored at all. By definition, Bayes high scores should match only on spam, low scores should match only on ham. That's not perf

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-18 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Dave Pooser wrote: BAYES_99 used to hit for emails that the naive Bayesian classifier identified as 99% to 100% spam. BAYES_99 is now split into two rules to give it finer gradient on scores for different percentages: BAYES_99 99% to 99.9% BAYES_999 99.9% to 100% It woul

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-18 Thread Dave Pooser
>It would make my life a lot easier if instead BAYES_999 were an additional >rule. That is, if BAYES_999 fired *in addition to* BAYES_99. > I use several meta rules that include BAYES_99 and now I'm having to >go rewrite those rules to include (BAYES_99 || BAYES_999). Which raises the question--

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-18 Thread Dave Pooser
>BAYES_99 used to hit for emails that the naive Bayesian >classifier identified as 99% to 100% spam. > >BAYES_99 is now split into two rules to give it finer gradient on scores >for different percentages: > >BAYES_99 99% to 99.9% >BAYES_999 99.9% to 100% It would make my life a lot easier if inste

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/17/2014 4:12 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:05:23 -0500 "Kevin A. McGrail" wrote: Kevin> BAYES_999 is just a finer gradient on BAYES_99 allowing for a Kevin> higher score on the top .001% of Bayes hits. Thanks for your reply. Could you explain in a bit more detail what "

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 16:05:23 -0500 "Kevin A. McGrail" wrote: Kevin> BAYES_999 is just a finer gradient on BAYES_99 allowing for a Kevin> higher score on the top .001% of Bayes hits. Thanks for your reply. Could you explain in a bit more detail what "gradient on top" (of another rule) means? It

Re: BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-17 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 2/17/2014 3:59 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Hello. This is the first time SA is giving me enough trouble that I need to ask for help. I hope I get this right. I observed a marked increase in false negatives in the last few weeks. There have definitely been some increases in the past few weeks b

BAYES_999 strange behavior

2014-02-17 Thread Ian Zimmerman
Hello. This is the first time SA is giving me enough trouble that I need to ask for help. I hope I get this right. I observed a marked increase in false negatives in the last few weeks. Only today I had enough sense to look at the detailed scores. And, all the escaped spams have hit the BAYES_9