200 not 500.
{o.o}
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Kettler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> At 10:35 AM 2/17/2004, Jason Novak wrote:
> >which I imagine that Bayes is learning? Any idea how to 'turn Bayes
> >on'? From what I see, this is constantly updating the files in
> >~/.spamassassin/bayes_*, but I don't think that spamassassin is utilizing
> >the rules it learned from these files.
> >
> >Any help clarifying this would be greatly appreciated.
>
> The bayes system must accrue 500 spam, and 500 ham (nonspam) emails in
it's
> learning before it gets used in message scoring.
>
> Via autolearn alone this will take quite some time. It also produces a
> sub-optimal bayes database (at least a small amount of manual learning is
> desirable to produce a well balanced bayes db)
>
> I'd recommend getting some emails and feeding them to sa-learn to manually
> train it... You can get to 500 of each much faster this way, and since you
> are manually classifying them, you can feed many kinds of spam and ham
that
> SA ordinarily would not autolearn from because it didn't score strongly
> enough to cross the learning threshold.
