[Spambayes] trained as ham, classified as spam

Meyer, Tony T.A.Meyer at massey.ac.nz
Thu Oct 2 20:25:48 EDT 2003


> Ah, this is indeed useful. I did not know this was possible, 
> I thought the web interface was only for pop.

That's (one of the) reason(s) that pop3proxy.py has been renamed to
sb_server.py in the latest release, to indicate that it's doing more
than the pop proxy.

> Well, it is roughly equal, although I don't know how roughly 
> is roughly. I trained with a little more spam than ham: 
> probably approximately 60% spam.

That shouldn't be a problem, although AFAIK no-one has done any actual
testing to determine when problems start.  Many people have a ratio of
2:1/1:2 and find it works fine for them, though - it's just if the ratio
is 100:1 or something like that, spambayes really struggles.

=Tony Meyer



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