Fw: bayes autolearn

Tony Johansson tony.johansson at SVENSKAKYRKAN.SE
Sun Jul 20 19:32:32 IST 2003


On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 14:58:05 +0200, Soeren Gerlach <so-mlist-alias at ALL-
ABOUT-SHIFT.COM> wrote:

>I do have the same setup (two mail servers configured via MX as relays) and
>I do the following with quite remarkable results:
>
> * Quanrantine "high score spam" messages
> * Collect them once a day from the two relays to another consolidation
>server
> * There use the "sa-learn" from S.A.
> * Additionally I feed the mails back to the razor network
> * copy back the resulting database to the two relays (MailScanner must be
>stopped while copying back because of file locks)
>
>With now some 5.000+ Spam messages it increases the overall "yield" quite
>good. The problem with autolearn that the "ham" portion of the mail is only
>usefull one a single user basis (there're some articels about this issue on
>the net) because of the often individual dictionaries a user's mail have,
>while the spam portion on the other hand isn't.
>
>regards,
>Soeren Gerlach

How much ham do you use when training?


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