[spambayes-dev] auto-training w/ small db seems like a bad idea

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Tue Jan 13 10:07:16 EST 2004


    Anthony> My anecdotal experience (based on a couple of days now) is that
    Anthony> small DB/non-edge training has done wonderful things for the
    Anthony> accuracy of the results. Mind you, if I hadn't made the changes
    Anthony> to the training API, it'd be a pain in the arse <wink>.

"small DB/non-edge training" may very well be a great idea.  In fact, I
started from scratch yesterday based upon your email praising the idea.
Auto-training with small databases where you are likely to get more false
positives seems like a bad idea though.

Skip

P.S.  Aren't you up kinda late? ;-)



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