[Spambayes] ham/spam show 'n tell

[Atom 'Smasher']

this is an interesting (to me) observation.... at this moment i have my
database made up of 524 hams and 522 spams, of which, the 5 hammiest spams
score:
	0.310988054593
	0.477222956608
	0.69525821016
	0.778912509175
	0.882964949455

and the 5 spammiest hams score:
	0.00282491682801
	0.00295767979157
	0.00548257011708
	0.00566510201445
	0.00933374699939

right now my spam-cutoff is 0.8, and looking at these numbers even that
seems conservative.

so, what do these numbers look like with databases made from different
sized pools of ham & spam? how about with a database made of 34 emails...
skip?  this might give some quantifiable clues about how big a database is
"big enough".


        ...atom

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