[spambayes-bugs] [ spambayes-Bugs-1052180 ] Message not classified as SPAM

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Bugs item #1052180, was opened at 2004-10-23 02:10
Message generated for change (Comment added) made by anadelonbrin
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Category: Outlook
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Works For Me
Priority: 5
Submitted By: MCCOMM (mccomm)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Message not classified as SPAM

Initial Comment:
Although I've only been using the product for 2 days, I 
feel that the message I had to train this morning is 
blatant SPAM. So far the filter has tagged 4 messages 
as SPAM or unsure. 3 of them I'd consider false 
positives. So along with this false negative the filter is 
batting .200.

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>Comment By: Tony Meyer (anadelonbrin)
Date: 2004-10-26 13:33

Message:
Logged In: YES 
user_id=552329

I don't understand your batting reference (not everyone is
American!), but I presume you mean it isn't good.

SpamBayes works based on the training that *you* do.  It
doesn't come with any existing knowledge.  So if you haven't
trained it on messages like that one, then it wouldn't know
what it was, irregardless of what you yourself know.

FAQ 4.7 might help:

<http://spambayes.org/faq.html#why-did-spambayes-mark-this-obvious-spam-unsure>

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