[vox-tech] Training spamassassin's bayenessian filter

R. Douglas Barbieri vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 6 Nov 2003 08:29:27 -0800


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On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:59:12PM -0800, Ryan Castellucci wrote:
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> On Wednesday 05 November 2003 09:24 pm, Ken Bloom wrote:
> > Will SpamAssassin's bayenessian be more effective if I train it on
> > every message that comes through (even ones that it's built in tests
> > have already rejected as spam) or only on false negatives?
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> Yes, it's much more effective if you train it on all messages.

Woah. Dumb question, but when did SpamAssassin go Bayesian? It's one of
the reasons I switched away from it to Bogofilter.

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