Bayes starter DB

Pete pete at eatathome.com.au
Fri Apr 9 08:04:10 IST 2004


LOVE to try this out.

Stephen Swaney wrote:

>I've created a Bayes "starter" database that has been carefully handcrafted
>from about 500 hams (typical business correspondence, airline reservations,
>credit card statements, etc.) and about the same number of spam and hard to
>detect missed spams from our spam trap (+10,000 spams a day).
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>It will get a new MailScanner - SpamAssassin up and using Bayes right out of
>the box :) It's also useful if your Bayes database get poisoned or
>corrupted. We've had good results using this starter and auto-learn to get
>reasonable Bayes filtering started with little work. Manually feeding spam
>and ham is always better but for those of who have less time than smarts it
>will work reasonably well.
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>If there is any demand for this I'll be happy to post it to our website for
>download.
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>Steve
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>Stephen Swaney
>President
>Fortress Systems Ltd.
>Steve.Swaney at FSL.com
>www.fsl.com
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