Re[2]: Is Bayes Really Necessary?

[Robert Menschel <Ro...@Menschel.net>]

Hello List,

Thursday, May 26, 2005, 10:05:26 AM, you wrote:

LMU> 	Though nobody seems to have said it exactly this way:  It seems
LMU> to be becoming very obvious that the people who say the have problems
LMU> with Bayes are those who support a diverse group of users (e.g. ISPs
LMU> and email providers) and those who find it works well, even with autolearning
LMU> are those with either small numbers of users or users who are mostly of
LMU> a very specific categorization type (e.g. medical, legal, technical, or
LMU> just about any homogenous group).

Sorry -- major email server here, serving several hundred domains,
well over 1k users, all types from techical experts to business people
to newspaper reporters to retailers to pharmacists to people with
professions of various ages. Site-wide Bayes. Everyone has access to
sa-learn via IMAP. Works marvelously.

Bob Menschel