[Spambayes] training cutoff

Atom 'Smasher' atom at suspicious.org
Thu Dec 4 12:00:47 EST 2003


if i'm manually training (don't ask why), does it make any sense to train
on messages that score 1.0?

is there a sensible cutoff, beyond which i can say "this thing really
knows this is spam, i don't have to tell it."?

or, is it better to train on all spam, even if it knows that it's spam.


        ...atom

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