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The rules help a lot, especially in the early training of the bayes database. It's amazing how much stuff is still caught by them... Over time, the SA bayesia
by corbet 17y ago
The rules help a lot, especially in the early training of the bayes database. It's amazing how much stuff is still caught by them... Over time, the SA bayesian recognizer gets good enough that the rules play a relatively small role. I think I had no false positives from this little bug thanks to the bayesian counterweight.
A default database is a poor idea, though. One thing I've learned in helping folks with SA is that people get very different mixtures of spam and mail. I don't think you'd like my database at all. There's really no substitute for making your own...
- jules 17y agoWhat does Gmail use? It stops almost all spam. Aren't they using a single big database?
- sorbits 17y agoProbably a lot of the effectiveness comes from getting user spam classification feedback. The same letter is generally mass-mailed, so the chance someone got and flagged the spam you got, before you check your mail, is pretty high.