Re: Unbalanced Bayes SPAM / HAM Count

2004-09-11 Thread Daniel Quinlan
Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:31 AM 9/10/2004, Gustafson, Tim wrote: > >What I'm worried about is that I have so many more SPAM than HAM messages. > >Is this dangerous? > > No, in fact it's closer to optimal than a 50-50 mix is... > > Remember, Bayes is a statistical system..

Re: Unbalanced Bayes SPAM / HAM Count

2004-09-10 Thread Matt Kettler
At 07:31 AM 9/10/2004, Gustafson, Tim wrote: What I'm worried about is that I have so many more SPAM than HAM messages. Is this dangerous? No, in fact it's closer to optimal than a 50-50 mix is... Remember, Bayes is a statistical system.. Statistics work best when they are as close to reality as p

Re: Unbalanced Bayes SPAM / HAM Count

2004-09-10 Thread jdow
Are you autotraining or manually training? If the former try manual training. I've never used the automatic training here. It seems to be based on circular logic. It reinforces initial bad guesses about what is spam and what is ham. And right off on an install has Spam Assassin er ah "not doing ver

Unbalanced Bayes SPAM / HAM Count

2004-09-10 Thread Gustafson, Tim
Hello My Bayes filter has been learning beautifully. There is just one problem: more than 70% of my e-mail, on average, gets tagged as SPAM. In just 13 days of Bayes auto-learning, I have amassed the following SPAM/HAM messages (via the sa-learn --dump magic command): 0.000 0