[Spambayes] My first results with pop3proxy and smtpproxy

[Tim@mail.powweb.com]

I've trained using the smtpproxy and a few dozen spams that I hadn't 
deleted and hadn't been contaminated by SA before I got involved with 
spambayes (basically SA mistakes).  Even given the small size of the 
corpus, it is doing an amazingly great job classifying inbound mail.  
It even correctly classified one of those "here's another funny 
story" infernal mails that gets forwarded three hundred times, and I 
hadn't trained it on anything like that.  I have to say that a corpus 
of thousands really isn't turning out to be a necessity for spambayes 
to be useful to me.

One other observation... my strong tendency *IS* to train this thing 
only when it makes a mistake.  Skip et.al. has warned boucoup times 
about not doing this... train on a reasonable smattering of both, even 
if they're correctly classified, and train often.  **BUT** if this is 
my tendency and I understand the system, then this will likely be a 
real problem when the masses get started using it.  How to ensure that 
mistakes only training isn't the norm?  Beats me.  But we've either 
gotta figure out how to make sure that the teeming masses don't make 
this error, or we've gotta figure out how to make the system tolerate 
this error reasonably well.

- Tim
www.fourstonesExpressions.com