[Spambayes] Feature idea: Autobalancing ham/spam

[David Abrahams]

on Wed Nov 28 2007, Thomas Hruska <thruska-AT-cubiclesoft.com> wrote:

> skip at pobox.com wrote:
>>     Amedee> I think it is easier to acknowledge that spam won't go away,
>>     Amedee> that no solution is perfect, and that it is less work to retrain
>>     Amedee> from scratch when your ham/spam ratio becomes ridiculous.
>> 
>> Or simply whack off your oldest spam messages to keep things more-or-less
>> balanced.
>> 
>> Skip
>
> It would be nice if Spambayes could do the "whacking-and-retrain" thing 
> automatically every so often (obviously would need configuration 
> options).  For those of us who don't want to have to think about it.

The train-to-exhaustion script in contrib/tte.py does essentially
that.

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Dave Abrahams
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