Re: Review of bayesian spam filters

Anthony Campbell <ac-MeA/[email protected]> Fri, 24 Feb 2006 12:24:51 +0000

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.spam.spamprobe.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 23 Feb 2006, Nicolas Duboc wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
>   Linux Weekly News has just published a review of bayesian spam
> filters. It includes SpamProbe.
> 
>     http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/172491/7eaf0d9defca131c/
> 
>   Regards,
>    
> -- 
> Nicolas Duboc <[email protected]>

I was surprised at the relatively poor performance of SP here.
Insufficient training? I get NO false positives at all and not more than
one or two false negatives a day, sometimes none.

Anthony

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