Bayes: Worth it?

Martin Hepworth martinh at SOLID-STATE-LOGIC.COM
Tue Dec 7 15:41:08 GMT 2004


Christian

works very well for me.

I used a ruleset so it only SA scans on email from the outside
world..(identified using the ip-address).


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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Christian Campbell wrote:
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> I'm running MailScanner as a gateway between the world, an
> internal Exchange server _and_ an internal Domino server.  MS
> scans all mail to and from the Internet, as
> well as mail between the internal Exchange and Domino server.
>
> In this type of configuration, is it worth using bayes?  I'm
> confused as to how I would properly train bayes to be effective
> in this environment, so I haven't bothered trying it.  Does
> anyone have any opinions on how and if this would work?
>
> Christian
>
>
> Christian Campbell
> Systems Engineer, Sair LCP, A+, N+, i-Net+
> Bruegger's Enterprises
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> Email: ccampbell at brueggers dot com
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