There is no way that I can allow users to add their own mail to the corpus, they'll screw it up.
I guess I could start with my corpus and add to it as I do mine, and watch the test accounts to see how well it works.
Thanks ....
David B Funk wrote:
On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, Terry Milnes wrote:
The bayes filtering works great, but the typical user is not going to want to jump through what he would consider the huge obstacles to train a corpus. Furthermore implementing bayes on a system that incorporates thousands of users can be a daunting task, and isn't even an available option to some of us.
It is true that Bayes works best if you can customize it on a per-user basis bit that is NOT necessary. It DOES work even when left to run on a site-wide basis with just the training from auto-learn.
As an administrator running SA with Bayes site-wide on a system that processes tens of thousands of messages a day for thousands of users with no per-user configs, I know of what I speak.
If you cannot do any hand-correcting (re-feed it ham/spam to correct mistakes) you might want to adjust the scores so that just a Bayes score cannot be responsible for the total determination of 'spam'. IE with the default spam threshold ==5 and default Bayes 100% score ==5.4, a mistake in Bayes learning could be soely responsible for a message being marked as 'spam'. So crank up your spam threshold to 6 or so to require some other rules to corroborate the Bayes assessment.
Bayes does use up a bit of memory and CPU, but it's small potatoes compaired to some of the add-in rules that have been discussed on this list (Hi Chris ;).
So please give me one good reason why you say Bayes: "isn't even an available option to some of us"
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