On Wednesday 14 December 2005 17:10, Paul M Foster wrote:
> As mentioned elsewhere, you must train it on _both_ spam and ham. And
> there's a lower limit below which it won't make any difference. But let
> me make a point here about Bayesian spam filtering. Your spam/ham
> database will grow until it takes over the whole internet! ;-}
> Seriously, every time you feed it a spam/ham to learn from, the database
> will grow. I've had a bogofilter file up to 18M before (of course, I get
> 500-600 emails a day, 95% of which is spam). If you think that doesn't
> slow things down, you're wrong. This is why I started writing my own
> procmail spam recipes, in addition to using SpamAssassin (without its
> bayesian capabilities).
Paul, I think you should turn off learning a bit earlier... : )
--Steve Szmidt
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