On 08 Nov 2003, at 06:46, Terry Milnes wrote:
Some of us though are system administrators and need a solution to offer to the end users. The typical end user wants to open their email and see no spam, period.

Since the definition of spam varies from person to person that is simply not possible without customized tweaking.

Presently without the tweaks and training all we can do is reduce his spam by about 50 - 60%.

Much much much better than that.

# SUMMARY for threshold 5.0:
# Correctly non-spam: 16785 30.50% (99.84% of non-spam corpus)
# Correctly spam: 37347 67.87% (97.73% of spam corpus)
# False positives: 27 0.05% (0.16% of nonspam, 3617 weighted)
# False negatives: 869 1.58% (2.27% of spam, 2912 weighted)
# TCR: 38.063745 SpamRecall: 97.726% SpamPrec: 99.928% FP: 0.05% FN: 1.58%

That means that 98.27% of email processed with SA at a score level of 5.0 is correctly marked as spam/ham, and 97.73% of spams will be tagged correctly.

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