[Spambayes] trained as ham, classified as spam

Meyer, Tony T.A.Meyer at massey.ac.nz
Wed Oct 1 19:38:22 EDT 2003


> I have trained the forwarded message as ham, and fed it to 
> sb_filter.py afterwards. It is still classified as spam! Does 
> this mean that looks like ham, but looks much more like spam? 
> Is there a way to have this false positive being classified as ham?

More useful than the message itself would be the clues that it generates
with your database.  You can get these via the web interface (the
classify message box).  You should be able to see why it's being
classified as spam (i.e. which tokens are making the difference), but
you can post them here, too, and someone is bound to comment.  It would
also help to know how much data you have fed to spambayes - note that it
works best with roughly equal numbers of ham and spam, so if this isn't
the case, then that might be the problem.

=Tony Meyer



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