[spambayes-dev] train to exhaustion?

T. Alexander Popiel popiel at wolfskeep.com
Thu Feb 12 18:32:57 EST 2004


In message:  <16428.889.749153.651608 at montanaro.dyndns.org>
             Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:
>
>    Kenny> I would think, then, that you would keep going as long as the
>    Kenny> score indicates that you are getting closer to correct
>    Kenny> classification.
>
>And stop once all ham score at or below the ham_cutoff and all spam score at
>or above the spam_cutoff.

Of course, this process is not guaranteed to ever complete;
consider the case where you have two messages with identical
token lists (perhaps in different orders?) and one is marked
as ham and the other is marked as spam.  At best, you could
get them both classified as unsure.

- Alex



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