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

[Tim Peters]

[Tim]
>> ...
>> Ah, I've noted before that I throw away half my Unsures unclassified,
>> because I can't tell whether they're ham or spam
>> ...
>> No part of the testing framework can be talked into believing that
>> Unsure is the *desired* outcome for a msg, though ...

[T. Alexander Popiel]
> Hrm.  Good point.  Perhaps we should fix this, adding a third branch
> to the testing framework's data directory tree, and then convincing
> the test code to use messages in that third branch in the classify
> phase, but not in the train phase.  And then we'd have the six
> error states of ham->spam, ham->unsure, unsure->ham, unsure->spam,
> spam->ham, and spam->unsure.

The added complication is unattractive -- I'm OK with guessing "the right"
category, even while believing that doesn't make sense <wink>.