On Sat, 21 Apr 2012 14:40:42 -0500 (CDT) Dave Funk <dbf...@engineering.uiowa.edu> wrote:
> > Beyes does not make much sense in a multi-user, diverse community > > such as my university department. Makes sense here (small company; > > small user base) > I'll have to disagree with that, as a person running a mail server > for a university college (organizational unit bigger than a > department) which has thousands of users. Bayes may not be as deadly > accurate as it would in a totally homogeneous environment but still > worthwhile. +1. Our (commercial) solution includes a nightly-updated Bayes corpus that includes tokens from a couple of million messages from more than a million end users and it's still extremely accurate at picking out spam. As you wrote, ham is all over the place, but spam tends to look the same. Regards, David.