On Wed May 10 2006 11:07 am, Aaron Konstam wrote: > You still have to check for spam that is misclassified > and ham which is misclassified. So now you have three streams to check > rather than two. That to me is an extra pain. Sorry, but this is just not my experience. I happen to direct unsures to my inbox in Linux, and to a separate folder in Windows - either way is perfectly convenient. I never get false positives on any of the seven machines I run Spambayes on after a few days training. I just checked 400 spam in my mailbox to verify this before writing this - every once in a blue moon, I do that. There were no false positives. Training on spam that gets classified as unsure or as ham, is an ongoing process. Spammers constantly change their tactics and methods, so no method is ever going to catch it all. My worst trained machine, actually my Windows laptop running Outlook, lets the most crud through, up to 30 or so a day, that's out of over 400 spam messages that I get daily; I have one Linux box at work, my brand new FC5 machine, that only let three spams get through this same day - I download all my mail to multiple machines for various reasons, but it gives me a good metric to compare things... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
