[Spambayes] Training/Scoring in SpamBayes

Kenny Pitt kennypitt at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 14 15:06:01 EST 2003


Seth Goodman wrote:
> [Michael K. Schummers]
>> moving to Unsure, Spam or leaving in the Inbox. New messages WILL
>> be trained
>> if moved from Unsure to Inbox or Spam. They will also be trained if
>> moved from Inbox to Spam or Spam to Inbox (clearly this will also
>> occur 
>> if "Delete
>> as Spam" or "Recover from Spam" buttons are used in the
>> respective folders.
> 
> Is this true?  If the incremental training checkboxes (Outlook plug-in
> version 0.81) are checked, does SpamBayes then trigger on the folder
> move it initiated when it moved a spam to the spam folder and thus
> train on all definite spam?

SpamBayes will only train on a message moved to the spam folder if it's
initial classification score was below the spam threshold.

-- 
Kenny Pitt




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