[Spambayes] How best to train SpamBayes?

Amedee Van Gasse amedee at amedee.be
Mon Jul 23 09:11:26 CEST 2007


On Sat, July 21, 2007 17:46, C Stephan wrote:
> I understand SpamBayes works best when trained on roughly equal
> numbers of ham & spam messages.  After initial training, I've been
> training it only on messages it got wrong or was unsure
> about.  Should I also be including some (or all) correctly-labeled
> ham & spam in the training?  Thanks.

You train the same way as most people do. (I think)
You don't have to train correctly-labeled ham & spam.
Except perhaps when your traing db has a very unequal number of ham vs
spam. And even then...

-- 
Amedee



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