On Wednesday 14 December 2005 12:01, Eben King wrote:
> I put Spamassassin on my machine to deal with the spam issue (which is not
> severe, by "abuse@" standards, but still), and it doesn't seem to be
> getting beter. Correction, the two-week average of "% spams caught" has
> gone from 38% two weeks ago to 44% now. There have been no false
> positives, for which I'm grateful, but I'd put up with a few false
> positives for a better kill rate. I got fed up with it, so I made a
> spreadsheet to see _how bad_ it was. It's at
> http://24.94.123.65:81/spam.xls . I've fed every missed spam to it by "|
> sa-learn --spam" from pine. What am I doing wrong? Shouldn't it be
> improving?
You also need to tell it how good email (ham) looks like. It should be a 50 -
50 split when you train it.
--Steve Szmidt
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