Bayes: Worth it?

[Martin Hepworth]

Christian

had a good amount of both from our previous system

There's a bood bayes starter DB on www.fsl.com/support

I then have two shared imap folders that usre drag email to if SA gets
it wrong (one ham one  spam). Then I run a daily update to retrain.

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


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...
>
> Slightly confused...but willing to learn.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Christian

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