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<DIV><SPAN class=365330620-12082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I run
spamassassin on my home system which is very low usage and bayes is working very
well.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=365330620-12082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>In
fact I would say that bayes works better on small systems for a couple of
reasons.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=365330620-12082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>1)
Bayes works best when it learns your individual mails. For companies which deal
with lots of different topics and areas bayes has to learn a lot of tokens as
being ham. For home servers and small organisations they receive a far small
variety of ham messages so bayes can work better.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=365330620-12082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>2) The
default bayes database size is geared towards the smaller user. In my company if
I used the default bayes size (which a lot of people probably do) the oldest
token age would be about 2 days which is far too short for it to be very
effective.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info]<B>On Behalf Of </B>Steve
Mason (lists)<BR><B>Sent:</B> 12 August 2007 20:35<BR><B>To:</B> 'MailScanner
discussion'<BR><B>Subject:</B> Dumb Bayes question<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=897183119-12082007>Hi all. I've been running MailScanner for a
while now my home server (4 users) and 2 small non-profit organizations, both
around 10 users each.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=897183119-12082007>It seems to me I read a while ago, that Bayes isn't
too effective on low-volume servers due to it not seeing many messages.
Of course I can't seem to find where I read that now.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=897183119-12082007>If I use a "starter" database, and occasionally feed
it any false positive/negative messages, is Bayes worth using for very small
sites?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=897183119-12082007>Thanks,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=897183119-12082007>Steve</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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