[Spambayes] Food for thought.

[Tony Meyer]

> Can this go beyond spam? Can Bayesian logic be used to 
> classify mail in general?

FAQ 4.17 addresses this (in brief):

<http://spambayes.org/faq.html#can-spambayes-be-used-to-perform-n-way-classi
fication>

SpamBayes is really designed for binary classification, although you can
chain binary classifiers together.  If you want something to do this that
just works out of the box, though, POPFile would be the best idea.

=Tony Meyer

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