Bayes starter DB

Blue Moose IT Support support at BLUEMOOSEIT.COM
Fri Apr 9 11:36:29 IST 2004


Yes please!!

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).
>
> 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.
>
> If there is any demand for this I'll be happy to post it to our website for
> download.
>
> Steve
>
> Stephen Swaney
> President
> Fortress Systems Ltd.
> Steve.Swaney at FSL.com
> www.fsl.com
>
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