[spambayes-dev] I took a big step Tuesday...

[Rob Hooft]

T. Alexander Popiel wrote:
> In message:  <LNBBLJKPBEHFEDALKOLCGEHBFAAB.tim.one at comcast.net>
>              "Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:
> 
>>Something that would be fine:  Add a config option mapping score ranges to
>>tokens.  For example,
>>
>>
>>>I currently have my ham and spam cutoffs set at 0.15 and 0.80,
>>>respectively.
>>
>>could be described by
>>
>>   Ham 0.15 Unsure 0.80 Spam
>>
>>and
>>
>>
>>>As I mentioned in a recent message, I consider 0.80 to 0.90 to be
>>>"low spam" and 0.91 to 1.00 to be "high spam".
>>
>>by
>>
>>   Ham 0.15 Unsure 0.80 LowSpam 0.91 HighSpam
> 
> 
> +1
> 
> - Alex

People, this is all very unscientific. We have done lots of research in 
the earlier days of spambayes, and have come to the conclusion that 
there are no more than two useful cut-off points. Our false-positives 
mostly scored hopelessly close to the ideal 1.00000000000000000. If you 
find spam boring and want to delete everything above 0.995 
automatically, there is no scientific basis for not cutting at 0.90 instead.

Rob



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