-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matt Kettler said the following:
> At 03:58 PM 8/4/2004, Nicki Messerschmidt wrote: >> I'm seeking information about bayesian filters. I'm using >> spamassassin on our mail server with auto learning. No I was >> asked if a very uneven ham/spam ration of 1:10 does harm the >> filtering done by the bayesian database. >> Has anyone of you more information and/or experience on this >> subject? > And in general bayes is pretty resilient to gross deviations from > the "perfect" ratio. My training ratio is coming in at about 1:26. > My real-world inbound ratio seems to be about 1:10 or so, thus I'm > even further over than that. I'm not having any problems so far. > > The only situation you might run into is if you're severely > undertraining ham and overtraining spam, bayes poisoning might > start making nonspam emails score higher in the BAYES_ ranks. Do you have any information about how and when SA3 expires information from the bayesian database? I'd like to "preinstall" a pretrained database for each user und hope that the database is not emptied on instant if I add a user in three month with the database from today. Cheers and thanks Nicki - -- Linksystem Muenchen GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] Schloerstrasse 10 http://www.link-m.de 80634 Muenchen Tel. 089 / 890 518-0 We make the Net work. Fax 089 / 890 518-77 PGP Keys: https://www.link-m.de/pgp/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1-nr1 (Windows 2000) Comment: Get keys at: https://www.link-m.de/pgp iD8DBQFBEite6zWc+bXuIEMRAvQ0AJ9ZSRmb0+M98n/xA6WogC3iOCGb+gCfSiAG e0BvIeo56268ru0NheC3TVI= =6Nh+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
