Re: Result Based on a Single Token
RW <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:03:49 +0100 John G Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:35:07 +0100 RW <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The reason why this particular mail was detected as spam is that I > > don't train on all unsure result in mailing lists. > > That's your problem, then. > > > The reason I don't learn all unsure mails in mailing lists is that > > mailing lists are one of the few cases where spammers have access to > > high-quality ham text, and I'm concerned that one day they may > > exploit that. Consequently I don't like to let lists dominate my ham > > corpus. > > If you try to pick and choose which observations go into a Bayesian > (or, indeed, classical statistics) database then you get screwy > results. Personally, I believe this is a bug, and the details of how I triggered it are immaterial. Software should be tolerant of misuse, and should fail-safe. > That's the nature of statistics. You have to throw in everything or it > doesn't work. Period. > And a Bayesian spam filter should not be capable of designating an email as spam based on a single token. Period. _______________________________________________ Bogofilter mailing list [email protected] http://www.bogofilter.org/mailman/listinfo/bogofilter