Bayes starter DB

[Stephen Swaney]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On
> Behalf Of Blue Moose IT Support
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 6:36 AM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Bayes starter DB
>
> Yes please!!
>

Download is available at http://www.fsl.com/support/bayes-starter.tar.gz

There's no link on the support page yet but I'll try and get that in place
over the weekend.

If you have good - or bad results, please let me know off-list.

Thanks,

Steve

Stephen Swaney
President
Fortress Systems Ltd.
Steve.Swaney at FSL.com
www.fsl.com

> 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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