Re: BAYES_99 Picking Ham as Spam

[Rob Blomquist <ro...@verizon.net>]

On Monday 30 August 2004 10:24 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> On Monday 30 August 2004 9:34 pm, John Andersen wrote:
> > On Monday 30 August 2004 05:40 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote:
> > > I am getting a about 2% of my mail that is clean HAM marked as spam by
> > > BAYES_99  as being 99-100% spam.
> > >
> > > What can I do about it? How does BAYES_99 pick spam? I assume its a
> > > baysian filter....
> > >
> > > Rob
> >
> > You need to save these mails that are falsely called spam
> > and use sa-learn to teach bays database that they are not
> > spam.  Bayes filters need to be trained before they can
> > be trusted 100%

I have no reason to understand why I had to retrain SA last night, but that 
trick seems to have taught it a good lesson.

Thanks for the reminder to try retraining it.

Rob

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