[Spambayes] Is Equal Ham & Spam really the best?

[David Abrahams]

on Fri Jul 27 2007, skip-AT-pobox.com wrote:

>     Brendon> I've just started using spambayes again after a while away from
>     Brendon> it.  Now, 3 days in, I notice that I've trained on far more
>     Brendon> spam than ham.  (Total emails trained: Spam: *432* Ham: *64) I
>     Brendon> seem to remember that this was previously my experience in the
>     Brendon> past.
>
> Are you training on every message you receive or just the mistakes?  Most
> people generally only train on the mistakes and unsures.  Your ratio is
> about 7:1.  That's a bit high.  

Even training only on mistakes and unsures, I have had a steadily
increasing ratio for months.  I almost never see a misclassified ham
and only very rarely a ham about which the system is unsure.  It's
unsure about spam every day.

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Dave Abrahams
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