Michael C. Berch wrote: MCB> No, because the GA (if I understand how it is used correctly) only MCB> considers rules individually, and not in combination (by number or MCB> specifically). What I and some others have argued is that in many cases MCB> tripping 5 low-scoring rules may be a better indicator of spam that the MCB> single, additive numerical score would show. It is possible for the GA MCB> to derive this as well, but the magnitude of the computation involved MCB> (if you start using combinations, not just a number of hits) starts MCB> getting horrendous very quickly. This is probably a case where a MCB> human-optimized score is more practical.
Not necessarily a lot of extra computation -- you probably need only track the top few hundred most common rule-pair combinations, and maybe the top few dozen rule-triples. The way the GA works, it would be able to deal with these with very little additional computation. C _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
