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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=762295118-03102005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Have you tried the suggestions in <A
href="http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#the-recover-from-spam-button-no-longer-appears">http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/faq.html#the-recover-from-spam-button-no-longer-appears</A>?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=762295118-03102005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>As for training, the recommended (simplest and typically
most effective) approach is the obvious one: when SpamBayes puts something in
the Unsure folder or misclassifies a message (thinks it's spam when it's not or
vice versa), use the "Delete as Spam" or "Recover as Spam" button as appropriate
to train SpamBayes. People typically find that classification improves
rapidly; training on ten or so messages often leads to good results. If you're
not getting good results, it may be worth discarding the training database and
starting over.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=762295118-03102005><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>There's no way to tell SpamBayes that certain words only
occur in spam. The process of scoring messages as ham or spam works by
looking at how often the words in a message appear in other messages that you
have indicated are spam and/or ham. This tends to work better than simple
black-and-white filtering. For instance, to use your example, if a friend writes
to tell that she's buying a house and looking for a recommendation for bank to
get a mortgage from, filtering only on mortgage would mean that message is
discarded. SpamBayes would look at every word in the message, and if you've done
a good job of training, it would probably decide that the message is not spam.
Another example: I get lots of messages discussing Cialis, meds, mortgages, etc,
and the spam is almost all correctly classified as such, but your message got
through, because SpamBayes was able to determine that the despite the presence
of these "spammy" terms, your message actually wasn't spam. (That's pretty cool,
when you think about it!)</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> spambayes-bounces@python.org
[mailto:spambayes-bounces@python.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>M. Anne
Clark<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 03, 2005 12:56 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
spambayes@python.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Spambayes] IMPORTANT
QUESTION<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=861185116-03102005>Why did my tool
bar items for SpamBayes disappear? </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=861185116-03102005>IS there a way to
HELP train mine? It sure isn't learning very well.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=861185116-03102005>For example; Is
there a way to give it certain words like Cialis, meds, mortgage, etc. so it
dumps anything containing those into the Junk folder?!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=861185116-03102005>(I can't find
answers to those ?s in your FAQ, AND I'm not familiar with all the software
jargon, either. A simple answer would be most
appreciated.)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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