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Posted to commits@spamassassin.apache.org by sp...@incubator.apache.org on 2004/08/06 22:50:15 UTC

[SpamAssassin Wiki] New: BayesAccuracy

   Date: 2004-08-06T13:50:15
   Editor: JustinMason <jm...@jmason.org>
   Wiki: SpamAssassin Wiki
   Page: BayesAccuracy
   URL: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/BayesAccuracy

   adding a page hyping our bayes

New Page:

= How Accurate is SpamAssassin's Bayes implementation? =

[http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/spamcormack.html This paper], by Gordon Cormack and Thomas Lynam of the University of Waterloo, details tests performed to measure accuracy rates of various open-source spam filters.

It compares the various modes of using SpamAssassin's Bayes implementation, then compares SpamAssassin's Bayes against other popular open source pure-learning spam filters (Bogofilter, Spambayes, SpamProbe, DSPAM, and CRM-114). SpamAssassin consistently does well, and is among the lowest in false positives (as of the July 1 2004 revision).

See page 12, 'Classification Performance - Pure Learning Filters', in particular.