[spambayes-dev] RE: How low can you go?

T. Alexander Popiel popiel at wolfskeep.com
Mon Dec 22 00:40:35 EST 2003


In message:  <LNBBLJKPBEHFEDALKOLCIEDOHPAB.tim.one at comcast.net>
             "Tim Peters" <tim.one at comcast.net> writes:
>[T. Alexander Popiel]
>> Actually, there have been experiments done (by me) with expiry of
>> whole messages.
>
>Yes.  By "the project" having experience I mean controlled tests run by
>several across their own email mix, using exactly the same strategy, with
>reporting and analysis and all that good stuff.  We've done little of that
>(as a group) over the last year.

Ah.  Yes, that hasn't happened... I've been as lax as most folks
with regards to trying to replicate other people's testing, too. :-(

>> No... just find the most recent message that the token appeared in,
>> which would be a quick search through a few message times.  A really
>> quick search if you're only looking to expire hapaxes.
>
>I don't want to expire a hapax if it's been used recently in *scoring*.

*blink* *blink*  Oh, right, you don't train on everything like I do.
Sometimes I forget. ;-)

- Alex



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