[Spambayes-checkins] website faq.txt,1.1,1.2

[Skip Montanaro]

Update of /cvsroot/spambayes/website
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv29738

Modified Files:
	faq.txt 
Log Message:
added a new q&a from Bill Parducci about how long to keep training data.


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+ Do I need to keep spam after it has been trained? If so, for how long?
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+ 
+ Once a message has been [correctly] trained there is no need to keep it
+ around. However, Spambayes' accuracy is dependent upon having a "sufficient"
+ sample from which to make its decisions. Therefore, most users retain a fair
+ amount of spam in the event that they may wish to rebuild the corpus from
+ scratch.
+ 
+ Of course, this begs the question: "how much is enough?" That is where the
+ "art" of spambayes meets the science. Some users keep as many as several
+ thousand [recent] spam (as well as a similar number of ham). That is not to
+ say that you won't have excellent results with a tenth (or less) of that
+ number; since everyone's e-mail profile is different, the requirements for
+ training are as well.
+ 
+ 
  Why did Spambayes mark this obvious spam "unsure"?
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