Bayes: Worth it?

[Julian Field]

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Christian Campbell wrote:

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>>works very well for me.
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>>I used a ruleset so it only SA scans on email from the outside
>>world..(identified using the ip-address).
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>Please excuse my bayes ignorance, but don't you have to train it
>in some way to know what is really spam and what is really ham?
>How do you train a system like this when it's acting as a
>gateway?  I always assumed that there had to be user
>intervention in the training process...
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>Slightly confused...but willing to learn.
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One great advantage of SpamAssassin's Bayes code over other systems is
that it can auto-learn. Based on the scores from all the other tests it
does on a message, if they say it is definitely spam or ham then the
message is automatically fed into the learning code.

So it teaches itself quite successfully.

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