Re: [Asrg] NOT E-Postage - Filtering Header Draft Posted

0-9 has a neutral midpoint and is not troubled by
being out-of-numeribetical order.  For that matter so
is 0-F.

Joe St Sauver wrote:
> #0=spam- ; 10=spam+ ; 1-9 could be statistical confidence, or could 
> #instead be like what Meng Wong recently described as classes of mail.
> 
> I'd rather see a score that has a natural neutral zero point, and then
> real number values up and down from there. Using just ten levels seems
> rather discrete and linear when the phenomena in question is probably
> more Gaussian in nature.
> 
> You could map that distribution to a cumulative probability distribution
> function, but I'd rather see a raw value used instead.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Joe
> 
> 

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