Re: Result Based on a Single Token
David Relson <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.bogofilter.general |
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| Organization | Osage Software Systems, Inc. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 18:47:48 +0100 RW wrote: ...[snip]... > 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. Point taken. It can be argued that a single token is insufficient for classification. Perhaps a message with only 1 significant token should be rated as "Unsure". If 1 token is insufficient, what is the appropriate minimum number of tokens? Is it 2? or 5? or 10? Assuming there is a minimum, it ought to be configurable (as are bogofilter's other parameters). Given configurability, there's no way to prevent a bad configuration. HTH, David _______________________________________________ Bogofilter mailing list [email protected] http://www.bogofilter.org/mailman/listinfo/bogofilter