Some time around 08/14/2004 22:24:58, I think I heard MikeD (3) say:
> What settings are you using? Under the old version (0.4gm) I had it
> trained and was getting most spam caught, no false positives with a
> "Move message" setting of 10. Now I have gone down as low as 1 and as
> high as 99 without success.
I started with the "move message" setting at 40 and continued to lowered it without
noticing any effect. That's when I checked the BAYESIT.LOG file and realized that all
messages are marked with either 100/99 % or 0% probability, which means that no matter
how low I set the parameter, it will continue working the same. I don't understand
how come there is no "gray area", with messages marked with a, say, 30% probability,
etc. I do not get any false positives at all, but I do get about 4% of false
negatives...
> BTW, I am using the 0.5.5 verision that came with 2.12. Should I be
> using the newer version that I saw mentioned?
I was too. I just upgraded yesterday to 0.5.9 and I haven't noticed a difference. It
does provide a white/black list, which I don't care to use because it defeats the
purpose of a Bayesian filter (there's huge discussion -- more like religious wars --
about this on the POPFile list hehe). Also, the kludges.txt file doesn't seem to be
implemented either (ignore list for headers).
dZ.
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