Training Bayes with BAYES_999 Mail

[Andrew Davidson <am...@gmail.com>]

I'm not an expert on the mechanics of Bayes so I'm wondering how
valuable it is to continue training with collected spam that is
properly tagged with BAYES_999.

Does that help to reinforce the logic or is it overly focusing the
database on emails it can already detect? Should I only be training it
with miscategorized emails and emails in the 20-80% confidence range?

Thanks for clarifying,

-- Andrew

Re: Training Bayes with BAYES_999 Mail

[Reindl Harald <h....@thelounge.net>]

Am 02.10.2015 um 19:15 schrieb Andrew Davidson:
> I'm not an expert on the mechanics of Bayes so I'm wondering how valuable it is to continue training with collected spam that is properly tagged with BAYES_999.
>
> Does that help to reinforce the logic or is it overly focusing the database on emails it can already detect? Should I only be training it with miscategorized emails and emails in the 20-80% confidence range?

yes, because it contains clear spam parts repeated in the future in 
parts, doing that here for many months now and the results get better 
and better - we have a BAYES_00 of 85% of all scanned messages by 
heavily train ham as well as spam

0      51534    SPAM
0      19007    HAM
0    2161267    TOKEN

Re: Training Bayes with BAYES_999 Mail

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk>]

On 02.10.15 13:15, Andrew Davidson wrote:
>I'm not an expert on the mechanics of Bayes so I'm wondering how
>valuable it is to continue training with collected spam that is
>properly tagged with BAYES_999.
>
>Does that help to reinforce the logic or is it overly focusing the
>database on emails it can already detect? Should I only be training it
>with miscategorized emails and emails in the 20-80% confidence range?

imho, the more uncertain BAYES score is, the more it's usefull to train.
something hitting BAYES_999 is not worth imho.
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